本研究分析報紙和電視如何再現青少年犯罪案件，共蒐集民國89 年1月1日至5月31日的七份日晚報252則新聞，及三家電視台同 一期間的晚間七點新聞99則進行分析。 本研究發現，電視和報紙報導的青少年犯罪型態大同小異，兩者 均過度報導殺人、綁票等暴力犯罪案件，並極度重視警方來源，偏重 犯罪者的說詞。 新聞媒想報導青少年犯罪新聞時，出現四種偏差，包括統計偏 差、常規偏差、處理偏差和空間偏差。其中電視比報紙更強調不尋常 案件的統計偏差，更常譴責犯罪行為，且更對青少年犯罪新聞做顯著 處理。總體來說，兩種媒體都偏重案發時的報導，輕忽犯罪案件後續 的司法程序正義。

How do newspapers and television news make crime ‘news’？ A coherent theoretical answer can be developed by addressing a number of themes previously marginal to the sociological studies both of news and of social problems. This research offers an analysis of the content of daily news stories on crime，focusing on juvenile delinquency of Taiwan’s youth. The results show that the differences between television news and newspapers’ are minor, news values between the two media are different. Television news tends to be more social justice oriented than newspapers. Whole media overreported violent crimes as major crime events in real world, result truly signals that the era of post-modern spectacle has come.