Attitudes of Iraqi university students towards crime programs on local television satellite channels (A survey study on students of law colleges in public universities in Baghdad)

Abstract

The present research aims to investigate the attitudes of law college students in Iraqi public universities regarding the contents of crime programs presented on Iraqi satellite television channels and to identify the habits and patterns of the respondents ’following this type of program and their attitudes and opinions about those programs. This research is considered descriptive research, in which the researcher relied on the media survey approach for a sample of law college students in Iraqi universities. The researcher identified his research population as students of law colleges for the preliminary morning study at the following universities: Baghdad, Mustansiriya, and Iraqi universities exclusively, and he chose a sample of (180) respondents to represent the research population according to the intentional sample, i.e., those of the respondents who watch crime programs. The research concluded with several results, the most notable of which are:

1. The majority of the sample members are those who follow the Red Line program with a frequency of (103) and a percentage of (31.11%). The Yellow Ribbon program came in second place with a frequency of (81) and a percentage of (24.47%). In third place was the Itahim with Tamam program with a frequency of (69) and a percentage of (20.84%).


2. The results indicated that (103) respondents follow crime programs permanently (daily), at a rate of (57.22%). The “sometimes” category came in second place with (60) frequencies, at a rate of (33.33%), and the “rarely” category came in third place, with (17) frequencies, at a rate of (9.44%).


3. The results showed that the respondents did not support the following cognitive component statements: (Crime programs contribute to increasing the viewer’s awareness and understanding of the dangers of crime of various types and causes), (Crime programs did not contribute to forming new attitudes among the viewer regarding the ability of security personnel to detect crimes and arrest criminals), and (Crime programs contribute to forming inaccurate perceptions among the viewer about crime rates in society), meaning that the respondents did not support these statements with a high percentage of agreement.