Penal populism denotes the awareness that a significantly altered transmission system influences community perspectives. That is, the media uses its influence to portray a certain group of individuals through the exaggerated comments of certain reports. As panic reaches boiling point in the community, citizens vote for their legislators to pass harsh new criminal punishments against these "criminals" in order to address the problem as "effectively" as possible. That is, the community's vision is influenced by an electorally linked/organized broadcasting device and is distributed as a method of democratic governance (Welch,