Publish at January 29 2018 Updated March 09 2023
Learning about crime and justice online is primarily social learning.
To be a juror is to be prepared and to exercise good judgment in very unusual situations. How to receive unbearable judicial charges: the details of a rape or a sordid murder? How, as a simple citizen, to become a prudent man in order to learn to judge?
Beware à the pop culture of the teacute;léries (often American) that feed our imaginations. They are either remote from the actual proceedings or refer to different legal cultures.
They are not the same.
The inquisitorial or adversarial are based on divergent principles in which the judge, representing the general interest, overlooks in the former, the stakeholders who confront evidence against evidence, under the arbitration of a judge in the latter. It is of course possible to form an idea from novels, by reading newspapers, or even court reports.
Today, public opinion is played out, before the press, in the press, but more often on social networks that feed theories and support this or that party. But how do you learn about doubt online? Who can do it?
Beyond the understanding of the sole procedure, it is possible to become familiar with the doubt by reviewing the film "12 Men in Collusion " on the occasion of which the apprentice jurors will perceive the difficulty of fighting against evidence.
In the scenario of this film the questions of a single man make the passion and the prejudices of the majority fall back on the facts to satisfy a spirit of revenge. Through constant questioning, a single juror manages to lift the debate and sway the opinion of the group. The most interested will be able to learn the basics of criminal law online and prepare to become a lawyer or a law enforcement officer: MOOC or a serious game, or by downloading practice sheets.
But, they will still be a long way from experiencing a prerecording effect such as the one previously experienced by the lawyer of the serial killer Landru. In order to create doubt about the absence of a body attesting to the fact of a murder, he would have turned, with a great effect of dress, to the entrance of the courtroom and exclaimed: "What if the victim came in through this door?The entire courtroom turned toward the entrance except for the defendant, implicitly showing that he knew the victim was no longer alive. While online information provides many snippets it does not indicate everything about human behavior.
Let's take a second example, the social dilution of responsibility ». It is this effect that inhibits the intention to help a person in the face of a crime in the presence of others. The more people there are, the more each of them thinks that the other will intervene, that he is more qualified than I am. Two researchers, Latan and Darley, have tried to compose the steps leading to intervention.
What does it mean to commit a crime on the internet today? Isn't the sense of social dilution of responsibility being pushed to the limit? There are so many people online, why should I feel more concerned than someone else? And besides, is the fact that I am troubled real? Isn't there a risk of further reinforcing the feeling of isolation and lack of responsibility when a growing part of social activities take place online for all to see?
American TV shows acculturate the diversity of criminal practices. Sometimes it almost seems like a crime school because the situations are so realistic. They would have even prompted student generations to embark on forensic or medical careers. 2,600 crimes and 13,000 violent acts are said to be ingested by television viewers or internet users in a single year. This repeated ingestion of violence is said to produce deteriorating effects on the most fragile among us.
Research attributes to it passages à lé lévision more than one hour per day in elementary school would leave school without a diploma. The internet culture would be part of a background noise that would erode our capacity for empathy. But it is still the social opportunities that would have the most effect.
Pascal Cyrot produced an atypical thèse on self-training by drawing on the biography of the proxènète Iceberg Slim, to show the social mechanisms of self-training. He wondered how a proxemite mastered the skills of his mentee, even though there is no school for that.
It is through his social networks that Iceberg Slim learns about proxies. The frequentation of prostitutes or seasoned prostitutes would have taught him his pimping skills. Episodes of self-taught sociability play a role in his identity construction as well as in the acquisition of his skills.
How are these informal learnings translated today, which from one step to the next slide towards the web? The study of sociability on the Internet shows the role of the social network in the radicalization of terrorists (Guid 2016).
Conclusion
The Internet further accentuates the power of images to learn. In a few decades to talk about crime we went from newsprint à sensation or novels (reread « Crimes and châtiments ») The crime thriller adaptation on small screen, then on replay.
Today the culture of ubiquity, of the voyeurism of the exacerbated extimacy amplifies the scope of crimes, even the trivialization of their representation and staging. When Pascal Cyrot analyzes the novel of life of Iceberg Slim and the way in which the proxies learn his life, one should add a flow of images and interactions carried by video games, relays of violent images online, stupid and addictive challenges for teenagers in need of sensations.
Time for change and distance from this informational magma is certainly useful to establish dialogues and to decipher the proposals and visions of societies that express themselves very freely. There is a need to discuss what is seen around the network and to put meaning back.
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Television feeds violence - Corinne Kucharscki, Dr. Jean-Luc Saladin, Dr. Daniel Godefroy and Dr. Matthieu Blondet - Reporterre
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