This research looks at how crimes are portrayed in the media. We use 71 pairings to compare and contrast the ways in which crime tales are reported in newspapers and on local television, focusing on the similarities and contrasts between the two forms of media. action taken in the year 2020. The Karachi newspaper issue was chosen, and then crime-related articles were retrieved from the newspaper's archive. Following that, the headlines were sorted. There has been a lot of study on the ways in which different forms of media cover the same narrative, but very little into the ways in which the same crime "gets recounted" in different media. This is made possible by pairing together related anecdotes. To further investigate how non-typical victims and perpetrators are depicted in the media, we employ content analysis to analyze a sample of incidents involving adolescents. Crime and victimization among young people are dramatically underreported compared to their older counterparts. Taken as a whole, the results point to the fact that the media portrays crime, perpetrators, and victims in ways that are diametrically opposed to what is indicated by official crime data. This was particularly true of stories about young perpetrators and victims.

media, victims’ studies, media, perceptions of crime, policy opinion, racial context