Violence and the Media

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This paper presents convincing analytical evidence that violence in the media, whether it be from television, movies, or more recently, video games, increases the likelihood that children and adolescents will commit violent acts of their own. It also claims that those who have a predisposition towards violence can be as much as 66% more likely to commit a violent act because of long exposure to violence in the media.

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"More then 3,480 research studies conducted in the United States and around the world since the 1950s have shown a positive correlation between media exposure and violent behavior. (Cook 2000) Scientists who have studied a broad range of factors connected to violent behavior including, poverty, racial discrimination, substance abuse, inadequate schools, joblessness and family dissolution, have found that exposure to violent media was a factor in half of the 10,000 homicides committed in the United States in any given year. (Cook)"

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