Media & Mass Communication, Volume 2, 2013

Rezumat: The goal of this paper is to present the results of the research: how the issue of under aged people is highlighted in Georgian media and what ethical violations we meet with this respect. Content analyze is used as a research method. As the research showed, challenges concerning children and violence are one of the sensational topics. The main mistake the Georgian journalists make – victim children’s identification is the name of their identity or residence place – with which children’s rights are violated roughly and the ethical professional norms are broken too. While covering the cases of minors it is necessary to keep confidentiality - it is the international demand that contributes avoiding stigma i.e. prevents attaching stigma of criminal. But in Georgian media presumption of innocence is violated quite frequently.