...Youth crime Contribution towards Video game violence has been the biggest thing in youth crime since 1995. Crime rates are said to have risen and are blaming it upon violence video games such as those rated M for Mature or higher. Others have charted that crime rates dropped due to violent games which is quite right since there are other crimes far more worse then what is done in games. Scans have shown that video games teach youth that violence is acceptable to solve conflicts. When you’re exposed to violence day in and out, it loses its emotional impact on you, once you’re emotionally numb to violence; it’s much easier to engage in violence. Violent games desensitizing players making them more aggressive towards others which increase bullying in schools. It also promotes violence against woman, which we see a lot in today’s society. In 1998 a study founded that 21% of video games involved violence against woman. The number of games with violence against women has increased dramatically since then. Exposure to sexual violence in video games is linked to increases in violence towards women. These games also give kids the idea that the way women dress or act cause them to be assaulted and that it is their fault this violence occurs against them. While many claim to believe crime rates are caused by violent video games, juvenile crimes in the U.S declined as the popularity for violent video games have increased. Between 1995 and 2009 the arrest rates for juvenile crimes have...
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...Where Violence Comes From Whether or not violent video games cause violence among people is a highly debated top-ic in society today. Do video games, such as “Grand Theft Auto”, “Saints Row”, “Call of Duty”, “Doom”, and many others, cause violence in society today? Yes, violent video games that are being freely released to just about everyone in the public are one main cause for violence in the world. Violent video games are causing people to commit violent crimes, have hostile behaviors, the games are showing people how to kill and get away with it, and lowers chances of people taking a nonviolent solution to a problem. Many people are addicted to video games in general; many people use video games as an escape from the “real world”. Social scientists have been studying and debating the effects of media violence on behavior since the 1950s, and video games in particular since the 1980s. (Carey Benedict) One wide spread occurrence is people who have committed violent crimes often have been found to have played in the past or are playing violent video games now. In Adam Lanza’s basement, he’s the person in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, law enforcement re-portedly discovered a “trove” of violent video games. (Ryan Jaslow) Apparently the 20 year old spent hours alone, playing with the windows blacked out, honing his computer skills. (Ryan Jaslow) Many researchers have found that, after a violent crime, these criminals and murders have played violent video games throughout...
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...such violence can cause viewers to be more aggressive. Violence is the groundwork of many films, TV shows, and TV movies. Violence on screen is usually referred to as ‘action’. In a lot of cases, violence drives the story line. Rape, murder, or crime is used to begin a plot. If violence is the reason for the beginning of a story, there is usually more violence to come. There is an extraordinary amount of violence in media today because producers believe that it keeps audiences interested. TV violence rarely has consequences. There is a lot of fighting, but none of the main characters seem to get hurt. Only the characters that are less important die and when they do no one seems to care. TV violence rarely shows the real life consequences of violence such as physical handicaps and emotional costs. Children copy behavior they see in the media. If they watch TV programs that don’t show consequences of violence they may start to think that violence doesn’t cause serious harm. Children under the age of four are unable to distinguish between fact and fantasy and may see violence as an everyday occurrence if they are used to seeing it on TV. While violence on TV seems to be able to make a large impact on young children this doesn’t seem to be the case for teens that play violent video games. It is easy to think that playing a video game that involves shooting, stabbing, and blowing people up could make the player have aggressive behavior. According to federal crime statistics, the...
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...a norm that we can expect news about crimes committed by our fellowmen. From crimes like theft and oral defamations to gang riots and cases like murder, there are numerous crimes that happened because of problems with our behavior. There are different factors that can influence us to commit such kind of behaviors. Such crimes may be caused by intoxication, drug abuse, mental problems suffered by an individual. Aside from this, criminality can be also caused by factors that just drive an individual to carry out actions that are intentional and that can cause harm. Basically, it is human aggression that can possibly cause these criminal acts. Definitely aggression is part of human behavior but what causes and individual to become aggressive. Based on our discussion, we have talked about the Domain Specific Theories of Aggression. I strongly agree with the Social Learning Theory suggesting that individuals acquire aggressive behavior because of either direct experience or by observing others. Simply put, this theory asserts that aggressive behaviors are attained through observational learning processes. In the mainstream Filipino culture, we can usually hear sayings such as “Ang lahat ay tama sa mga mata ng mga bata.” Children who are exposed to a life where violence is a common sight, the tendency for them to develop a similar kind of behavior is very likely. It is very common for children who have experienced aggressive behavior to pass on their experiences...
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...Aggression and Violent Behavior 10 (2004) 99 – 128 Does viewing violent media really cause criminal violence? A methodological review Joanne Savage* Department of Justice, Law and Society, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016-8043, USA Received 9 September 2002; received in revised form 26 October 2003; accepted 30 October 2003 Abstract The topic of media violence has been the subject of heated debate in recent decades. There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of television on aggression but no published comprehensive review has ever focused on those studies that use criminal aggression as their outcome. The present paper represents an attempt to fill this void and provide a resource for those who do not wish to delve into four decades of original research in order to assess this line of investigation. Studies are evaluated based on contemporary standards of research in the field of criminology. Although the possibility that television and film violence has an impact on violent criminality remains, it is concluded here that, despite persistent published reviews that state the contrary, the body of published, empirical evidence on this topic does not establish that viewing violent portrayals causes crime. D 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Television violence; Media violence; Violent crime 1. Introduction A vast empirical literature on the impact of television exposure on aggression has accrued over the...
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...ANGER AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENT MALES Aggressive Behavior in Adolescent Males Tamara C. Denson CPSY 558 Tarleton State University ABSTRACT Anger and Aggressive behavior among adolescent males has been on the rise for years. There are many factors that contribute to the cause of aggressive behavior among males. Some of the factors include drug abuse within the home and among parents, issues of child rearing plays a substantial part and also environmental factors. Anger and Aggressive behavior among males is at a higher risk compared to females. These factors also contribute to adult aggressive behavior. Research has shown that there are many available treatments, but no evidence of effectiveness has been established. Continuing study and research is still a priority among researchers in order to help adolescent males who are dealing with anger and aggressive behavior. Anger and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescent Males Growing populations of male and female adolescents are becoming more and more involved with violent crimes. Society considered the violence an epidemic. Most of the violence is a result of aggressive behavior among the adolescents. In the United Stas every 5 min, police arrest a child for a violent crime. Every 2 hr, a child is murdered. In a single day, individuals wielding guns kill 13 children and wound 30 more; 5,703 teenagers are victims of violent crime; 2,350 juveniles are in adult jails; and 1,200,000 latchkey children return...
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...full title) Tutor Name: David Bruce Student ID Number: (200937726) Date of Submission: (26th July, 2013) Word count of your essay (1,265) Internet is a fast developing technology and the popularity of video gaming had been growing in recent years as well. Many people or institutions therefore investigate the negative impacts of video gaming. Since video games often include violence or aggressive language, people often think that video games lead to violent crime such as robbing, bullying and so on. However, Video games do not have direct impact on teenagers’ criminal behaviour because it is not proven that it leads to any criminal activities. This essay will examine the relationship between video games and teenagers’ aggressive behaviour and argue that video games do not assist to any criminal activities. Furthermore, video games also influence teenagers in a positive way. In recent years, many researchers found that teenagers tent to be more violent in behaviour after playing video games which might lead to crime for instance. Bösche (2010) states that video games lead to both aggressive behaviours and positive cognitions simultaneously. One of the positive effects of video games is securing players' attention and it can be implemented in education. Ferguson (2010) suggests that the violence and excitement of video games can draw players' attention easily, therefore video games can be used as a medium for spreading positive information. For example, educational tasks can...
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...disorder and he said he went because he wanted to understand his own personal difficulties since he had since a kid. This man was sick and needed help that’s why he shot up the movie theater, not because of the black knight and the joker. Horror movies don’t causes people to turn violent. Violent horror movies are not the reason people go...
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... Although the surge of brutality on television is often blamed as the prominent cause for the increased violence in our society, the true causes are related to the social situations that influence and contributing to violent behavior. Child abuse, domestic violence, poverty, and substance abuse are just some of the issues that have a predominate impact on developing aggressive tendencies; people are created by a combination of these life experiences. It is not a coincidence that many of the children growing up with violence become violent. These same combative adults may gravitate toward television programing that depicts aggressive behaviors. Families and communities are ripped apart by the increasing violence in society. It is argued that exposure to violence from television, movies, and video games do cause the violence in communities. The Aurora Movie Theater shooting and Sandy Hook Elementary massacre are just two examples of horrific violence in schools and communities. Both pointed towards media as the catalyst. Notwithstanding are the many studies showing the effect of aggressive behavior from viewing violence on television. Unfortunately, the results of most of these studies show the relationship of violence just doesn’t go in one direction; according to Leonard Eron (1982, p. 210), “Aggression can be learned in many ways. Recourse to aggressive behavior as a way of solving problems is the result of a number of processes operating conjointly...
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...influenced and inspired an abundance of both criminological and psychological research. Many replicable studies have been conducted in an attempt to establish the core source of deviant and/or criminal actions , and whether such actions are to be attributed to genetics, or to one’s environment , nature or nurture. This paper shall seek to establish, where possible , the route to criminal behaviour and evaluate potential factors that could influence an individual to become delinquent . Gottfredson & Hirschi (1990) set forth a general theory of crime that identified low self-control as the main causal factor. Their theory also proposed the notion that parents play the decisive role in either nurturing or thwarting the development of self-control – dependant on the parent’s ability to monitor and supervise a child’s behaviour and respond appropriately to anti-social behaviour. They claim that parents are the sole contributors to the cause of low self-control and therefore they reject potential genetic contributions in their theory . Their theory illustrates that criminal behaviour is simply caused by one’s parental socialization and upbringing, not by inherent genes . This concept is seemingly simplistic given that various other research suggests that there is empirical evidence for inherited genes having a pivotal role in determining an individual’s behaviour. Wright & Beaver (2005) conducted a study in order to test Gottfredson & Hirschi’s theory. They wanted to test...
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...whopping 90% of pediatricians and 67% of parents strongly agreed that violent video games can increase aggressive and harmful behavior among children (Grabmeier). Simulated violence in video games is harmful because it increases crime, teaches immoral behavior, and addicts people. We all may be aware, crime is not a positive effect of these types of video games. Addiction of these games lead to lack of necessities like sleeping, personal hygiene, and your overall health. Unfortunately, crime can be an amplifier of criminal activity, because of the rewards the game gives when the player completes an immoral achievement. By chance, a person who buys the violent games will go on and carry out a disastrous shooting (Kain). This Society allows many of its mentally ill slip through the cracks. In comparison, the mentally ill man, Jared Loughner caused a shooting in Tucson, Arizona (Fletcher). Clearly, video game players, especially the mentally ill, have trouble telling the apart between imaginary from to what is socially and morally acceptable. In addition, video games teach immoral and unsatisfactory behaviors. The American Psychological Association states violent video games as a risk factor of these behaviors. Some studies show video games cause an...
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...role in aggressive behaviour and lies within an individual’s genetic make-up. Psychologists, look at twin studies to try and find evidence on a genetic basis to compare the degree of similarity of aggression between sets of monozygotic (MZ) twins and dizygotic (DZ) twins. A lot of the time, it is found that aggressive behaviour is more highly correlated in MZ twins than DZ twins. An example of this would be when McGuffin and Gottesman found a concordance rate of 87% for aggressive behaviour in MZ twins, compared with 72% for DZ twin pairs. However we cannot just rely on evidence from twin studies because they can be problematic as it is hard to disentangle nature and nurture. Many have suggested that MZ twins are treated more alike and share more similar environments than DZ twins because they act more like 'one' person rather than two separate people. This may affect how alike they are and how likely they are to express aggression. Researchers have also identified a number of genes that can potentially cause aggression. Although no individual gene for aggression has been identified in humans, a gene responsible for the production of the protein MAOA has been associated with aggressive behaviour. MAOA regulates the metabolism of serotonin in the brain. Low levels of serotonin have been associated with aggression. In 1993, a study of a Dutch family found that many of its male members behaved in a particularly violent manner and most had convicted serious violent crimes. These men...
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...place to show affection considered deviant behavior? What about a person laying down a small rug and praying wherever they are at certain times throughout the day. There is no definite answer to the questions previously posed. Deviant behavior is a part of every society, but is it a necessary part of society and what causes it? There are many theories on what may cause deviance, but no single one is correct. This deviant and criminal behavior is what led to the emergence of certain laws, and it is these laws that govern the punishment for the crime. Felony crimes in the United States can range from murder to burglary, both come with penalties of imprisonment. There are four main goals of imprisonment, one of which is rehabilitation. The statistics show that this goal of rehabilitation is not being achieved because inmates being released have a high rate of committing a crime within three years. Is imprisonment the proper punishment for certain crimes? I pose the following questions for discussion: What makes for deviant behavior and what are the theories behind deviance? What type of crimes exist in the United States? What parts of the court and prison system are effective, and which parts are ineffective? 1. What makes for deviant behavior, and what are the theories behind deviance? Truthfully, deviance is only in the eyes of the beholder. In India it is considered a highly sexual act...
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...television, they will spent less time on exploring, playing and interacting with parents, friends and others. At age of children, time should be filled with activities that are beneficial for them such as reading books, interact with friends and family have been replace with spent watching television. Secondly, the television also will effect on the taste of the children. Means that, the children who often spent time on watching television will prefer more on adult programme. The negative consequences are they prefer the more violent type of adult programme, including the western, the adventure programme, and crime drama. Other than that, television also has its maximum psychological effect on children. A child with high violent behavior will probably make special use of the aggressive material he finds in a television programme. Many children tend to learn commit a crime by watching television. 1. LEARNING FROM TELEVISION- a good teacher can teach effectively by television. useful activities of education can be carried on by television.On the other hand, to the extent that teaching goes on by means of lecture and demonstration, then television has an unequalled ability to share the best teaching and the best demonstrations. It was found in Canada that children in a television town came -to the first grade of school with vocabularies about a year more advanced than children in a town without television (12). the children with television knew actually less about public...
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...American Intercontinental University Abstract This paper highlights the causes of school violence and aggressive behavior among youth in our society. It addresses family issues in the home, school related factors, and the influence of mass media on violence in our schools. Evidence suggests that schools have trouble tackling the complicated social, economic, and personal causes that generate the violent behavior of numerous young people. With the increasing wave of school violence, schools and communities are pulling together in response to this increasing crisis. Tackling Youth Violence in Schools Youth committed crimes continue to be an issue in the United States. Because of the increasingly high rates of juvenile delinquency, modern society has taking an interest in its causes and its effects. Juvenile delinquency is a serious and costly problem that present concerns in relation to the welfare of our families, neighborhoods and schools. (Horton, A.,2001, p.g. 50). Education professionals must take steps to develop and implement meaningful programs in order to combat this rapidly growing problem. According to Bullock & Fitzsimons (1996), “To work effectively with students who display aggressive and violent behaviors is a challenge that personnel in schools face nationwide.” Therefore, to effectively battle youth violence in schools, the contributing attributes that causes this behavior must be identified. Family Violence The first contributing attribute...
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