Análise crítica do programa Alerta Nacional à luz da criminologia midiática e seu impacto nos direitos fundamentais dos acusados e vítimas

Abstract

The “Alerta Nacional” is a news show on RedeTV channel broadcast nationally on television and also on YouTube, which draws attention to a peculiar way on how reports of crimes are spread day by day, such that the main question of this dissertation is if the attraction has characteristics of media criminology along with if it respects fundamental rights of the victims and defendants during the screening of crimes. Thus, to achieve these purposes, a qualitative analysis was used as well as bibliographic and inductive methods of research to discuss the concept of media criminology, fundamental rights, and critical discourse analysis. It can be noticed after the study that the television news broadcast usually includes news of crimes against property and drug trafficking. On the other hand, the TV program disrespects the fundamental rights of people investigated for committing a criminal offense, once their image is unnecessarily displayed and the show treats them as guilty before any final convicting sentence; there is even a celebration and trivialization of the death of felony’s suspects. Therefore, due to the characteristics presented, it is possible to conclude that the telecast “Alerta Nacional” lies within the media criminology as far as widespread a simple view of criminal offense, which puts the defendant on the “evil” side and the police and the society on the “good” side since it express disregard for the defendant’s life and their fundamental rights in general, especially their rights of image and the presumption of innocence.