Affects of voilent media
Recently there has been a dramatic rise in violence among America’s teenagers. The easy explanation is that adolescents are scripting their behavior after popular music, television programs and movies that depict graphic violence, and explicit scenes of gore. Numerous years of social science research has studied the relationship between exposure to media violence and adolescent violence (Sege, 1998, p. 129). Although the size of the effect is still in question, the correlation between the two is now no longer a controversial issue. Many quick to assess blame credit the amount of violence seen on television and heard in music with the recent upswing of juvenile crime. Those critics feel that media should be accountable for their program content. Though such people easily cast blame, legal precedent states that the artist or producer cannot be held culpable for what actions come as a subsequent result of their productions.Crime statistics have clearly become a paramount concern to the U.S. public during the last decade. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 1990, 56% of the adult population personally feared becoming a victim of a violent crime (Huesmann, L. R., Moise, J. F., Podolski, C. L.,1997, p.181). The
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