Abstract
This study aims at examining the increase in violent crimes in the journalistic
world of news, published in the highest circulated Daily Jang which is taken as
a day-to-day reflection of the real crime scene in Pakistani society across the
four decades (i.e.1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s). Rate of deaths and injuries
alongside the treatment of reported crime news were also evaluated to identify
the changing trends in the journalistic world of news. Crimes statistics provided
by Bureau of Police Research and Development were further referred to
compare relevance between the real and the reported crime scenes. Results
show that the rate of crimes has increased both in journalistic world as well as
in Pakistani society during the forty years sampled, but the increase is
curvilinear rather than linear in nature. There seems to be fragile, proportional
relationship between the two variables as far as number and growth of crimes
are concerned. At the core level, this research analyzes the dynamic factors
including national, regional and global socio-economic especially political
scenario that lead to an extremely volatile environment in the country by 2000s.
It is popularly assumed that Pakistani society becomes increasingly intolerant
and violent day by day though most of the crimes committed never reported
either in police stations or in newspapers.
Erum Hafeez Aslam, Nisar Ahmed Zuberi. (2011) GROWTH OF VIOLENT CRIMES IN REPORTED NEWS AND PAKISTANI SOCIETY (1970s-2000s), Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 50, Issue 2.
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