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In some countries, criminal trials are shown to the public on television. Do the advantages of this trend overweight the disadvantages?

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There is no doubt that television and broadcasting are being used by authorities to convey some significant events throughout the world.
Additionally
, nationwide television is chosen as a platform for presenting criminal
trials
 to
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residents in some countries.
Although
this
 application might result in few positive outcomes, I argue that the drawbacks undertake them.
Firstly
, the appearance of criminals and
crime
-related figures on television is likely to cause a bad impact on the younger generation. Even though the
trials
 do not contain any violence or unlawful acts, some youngsters believe that being a criminal is something
that is
 found charismatic by their age groups.
Therefore
, the existence of someone who has committed a
crime
 on TV
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 keeps a young one's attention to similar acts. On top of that,
trials
 of political crimes have been used as a black propaganda tool by some leaders in history.
For example
, the broadcasting of the
trials
 for prisoners who had been sentenced for their opposite ideas in Soviet Russia ignited a massive riot in 1984.
On the other hand
, these programs can be used as educational footage fo r those who had
involved
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 in minor crimes.
While
 a rewarding approach can solve more issues of a problematic child who had done a low-level
crime
, punishment and the presentation of possible negative consequences of a
crime
 might be more useful than the former approach.
For instance
, Psychological Behaviour Therapist Michael Myers from Leeds University suggests that observation of major
crime
 sentences has decreased the
crime
 rate by %18 of people who are between 19-24 years old in 2020. In conclusion, a live record of a court where has been an undergoing trial for a
crime
 might have been found as an efficient way to prevent
crime
,
however
, I believe that any image of a real
crime
-related scene is not appropriate for many people and does not reflect any useful outcome.
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