A interferência da mídia nos crimes de grande repercussão no Brasil e o direito penal como vingança social

Abstract

There is a strong feeling in society that there is a media interference in high-profile crimes in Brazil, which ends up linking the influence of the media to a vision of criminal law as social revenge, with the main objective of exacerbated penalization of alleged criminals. In this sense, this paper aims to analyze and expose to what extent the power of the media acts in the face of high-profile crimes, as well as discuss the impact of this interference in society. The research has an exploratory and explanatory character, which will be elucidated by means of a bibliographical study and analysis of legislation. Thus, the theme was approached by the deductive scientific method, starting from the Principle of the Presumption of Innocence, in order to interconnect the role of media influence in cases of great repercussion in Brazil through real situations, namely: Doca Street Case, Daniella Perez Case and Boate Kiss Case. The research raises the problem of the violation of the Principle of the Presumption of Innocence, that by colliding with the media and the mass communication media, makes the suspect of the crime become "guilty" and "criminal", being condemned, through media sensationalism, by society even before the justice act, as well as the reflexes that this social construction can cause in the decision of the judges.