INTRODUCTION
The media is a prime source of information on crime and safety for a significant proportion of the world’s population within the context of Canada, Judith Dubois, a researcher at the university du Quebec a Montreal, refers to several national studies recorded by the Canadian sentencing commission that reveal 95% of interviews also the media as the main source of information on crime related issues.
Despite the impressive figure, there have been endless debates on the degree to which media coverage of crime related events influences is strong or weak, this project work outline the several critical studies, practices and partnership. In the field of crime prevention and urban safety, which suggest that the media exerts both negative and positive influences on public opinion and policy and is most relevant in our focus on crime prevention?
In order to examine this role, it is important to recognize that the “media” is not a single source of enquiry, but includes a series of elements which require their own separate analysis, from Newspaper, to radio, internet, Television, alternate media in the investigation of the influences of crime media on public opinion and criminal justice and prevention policy and practice.
This project aims to describe the impact of media on crime prevention providing an integrated approach for exploring the multiple roles of the media. National and independent studies continue to maintain that the media holds an important position for communication and information sharing and dissemination in society. “The masses rely on images of trends and prevalence made available by the experts and official sources”.
However, due to the complexity and multi-dimensional framework, which encloses the impact of the media, its interactions and links, these roles remain largely undefined. Therefore, the impact is more complex than a causal link or simply media conforming to dominant news values.
In the end, through an inclusive, interactive and democratic relationship with a variety of media of crime prevention, and thus for preventing media misuse misconception and stigmatization and for promoting successful strategies and policies.
Given the scope of this preliminary study, the media’s impact will be largely discussed in relation to News media, given the interactions and questioned, yet still remain to be tested and proven.
Therefore, this research work will entail the major role which the media contribution on crime and corruption prevention, using the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a case study.
The history of crime and corruption in Nigeria is strongly rooted in the over 29 years of military rule, out of 46 years of her state hood since 1960. Successive military regime subdued of the public treasury, decapitated public institutions and free speech and constituted a secret and opaque culture in the running of government business.
The result was total insecurity, poor economic management, and abuse of human rights, conflict and capital flight. Democracy was restored in Nigeria only in 1999, with the election of the Civilian government under the leadership of President Olusegun Obasanjo. One Cardinal programme of the Obasango administration is the fight against crime, corruption and waste in the public services. This, he has demonstrated by the establishment of two major anti-graft institutions, the independent corrupt practice and other related offences commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2000 and 2003 respectively.
EFCC is the federation of European societies for clinical chemistry and laboratory. Machine, under the auspices of IFCC (International Federation for clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine) Connecting National societies of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine in Europe (defined according to WHO) and creating a platform for all specialists working on the field of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine Europe. EFCC is the European branch of IFCC, the word EFCC, which was derived from the European societies for clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, was formed in June 2007 at the Euromedla meeting in Amsterdam from the merger of the federation of European Communities confederation of clinical chemistry (EC4).
The Nigerian EFCC which is today the arrow head in fight off against crime and corruption in Nigerian using the media as a source of information and prevention was established in 2003 as part of a national reform programme to address crime and money laundering and in answer to the financial action task force (FATA) concerns about Nigeria’s Anti-money laundering and in answer to the financial action task force (FATA) concerns about Nigeria’s Anti-money laundering and combating the finance of Terrorism (AML/CFT) laws.
EFCC is an inter-agency commission comprising of 22 members Board drawn from all Nigeria Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAS) and regulators, the commission is empowered to investigate, prevent and prosecute offenders who engage in Money laundering, embezzlement, bribery, looking and any form of corrupt practices, illegal arms deal, smuggling, human trafficking and exchange of malpractices including counts feting of cussencies, theft of intellectual property and piracy. Open market abuse, dumping of toxic waste and prohibited goods (Section 46, EFCC Establishment Act, 2004).
The efficiency of mass media on crime in the society is over emphasized due to the incalculable function of surveillance, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) dimed it to work hand in hand regarding the masses are highly relying on mass media.
The surveillance, which is the gathering and discriminating of information. Media source effects receivers of providing them the instrumental information they need in order to get through a day. When we speak of the media as the “watch dogs of a free society”, we are referring to the surveillance function. In general, the surveillance aspect of media is fulfilled by News programming the question this is:
All this problems motivated the researcher to dig
1.3. Objective of the Study
The objectives of this research are:
Research question are used to collect and elicit data that will help in the Research work. There questions are also meant to guide the researcher in getting data that will help in the end to solve the problem identified by the research.
These questions are as follows:
Due to the omitted time, the work will be limited to EFCC, Abuja for the researcher to study. It is being assumed that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abuja is representing the entire EFCC branch, it is the case study.
1.6. Significance of the Study
Study embarked upon the researcher is meant to show that media, prevention in urban area over crime-related and the process of collecting disseminating information on crime, shows that the media can plays a role in the facilitating aggressive behaviour, yet evidence remains vague and unconfirmed. This study demonstrates a stronger relationship between media exposure and the desensitization of certain criminal act SK Srivasta and Sweta Agarwal (2004), envision the media as a powerful tool for “communicating ideas” to the society in fighting crimes, violence against the masses.
The research work will be useful to students of various institutions undertaking specialized course in mass media and society. It will also contribute to works already existing in this field as well serve as a reference material to other students who may wish to carry out further research in this particular field.
1.7. Limitation of the study.
Every researcher is bound to face some limitations while conducting research work and this study is not an exception and the study cannot go beyond Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Due to some obstacle and challenging factors faced by the researcher as at the time of carrying out this research work.
Some of the limitations are as follows:
1.8. Definitions of term
In the study, classification has to be made on the terms of the study. Understanding the participation of exploring crime prevention in urban area dwellers, mass communications or any other field, is a good reason to deliberate on five terms stressed on the research topic.
These terms are:
These terms are defined as follows: