Nowadays, it is possible for residents of some countries to watch criminal trials on television. I believe that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks considering the impact on personal development and education that this process provides.
Streaming the court trial might increase the risk of a negative impact on the arrested criminal and the lawyer. To be clear, some audience watching this programme might have strong opinions on certain things during the court, and hence there is a possibility of the opposing movement toward the criminal or the lawyer. For instance, some of the most popular criminal trials tend to happen with celebrities, which sometimes causes haters to write harmful messages or even death threats to them or their lawyers in case something does not go the way they thought. As a result, this may produce terrible outcomes on the mental health of the criminal and the attitudes of the residents.
However, although court trials might impact an individual due to harmful and violent consequences it may produce, the educating part of it tends to provide a good background knowledge of how a criminal is executed and hence, making them enforce the law. That is to say, the population of a certain country gains a deeper insight into the process of a criminal trial, which seems to make a positive outcome on the number of committed crimes. For instance, while a person is watching a lawyer’s reasoning on the case, each person progressively gets to understand how the law works. Therefore, observing the thinking pattern of the lawyer, makes residents of the country to be more self-aware about the significance of the law.
In conclusion, watching a criminal trial may have some negative impact on the criminal and the people who participate in it, however observing the procedure remotely provides an individual with a better understanding of the way the law works. Hence, I believe this factor outweighs any other possible disadvantages.