Does television promote violence and crime among children
Does television promote violence and crime among children? Although most people look at television as an entertaining and educational way to spend time, some people think there is too much violence in television and that is influencing our young into becoming aggressive in nature and to tolerate violence. Now scientists have discovered that all the violence in television can in fact mold a young innocent person into becoming a monster right under our eyes, just by watching television. ... Sounds odd but most people like the thrill of violence. ... The question is what goes through children’s mind when the bad guy is shot dead by the good guy and everyone applauds. ... This type of behavior can produce a false idea in children’s mind of how the real world deals with criminals. ... Acts of violence are committed everyday by High school and even Elementary school kids. Psychologists and Scientist have been trying to figure out what is causing these violent acts among our youths and how to stop it. ... They have been researching television violence and how it affects children’s behavior for many years and know that the more violence a child watches the more violent that child reacts. The recent increment of crimes committed by younger children has put a lot of pressure on scientist to find answers for our nations future. It also has put pressure on government to pass new laws to protect children from the violence. Many of the research conducted, points at television violence as the primary influence in children’s aggressive behavior. Even though results from many of the studies point to the violence content which is present in today’s television programming, television networks have denounced any allegations against them. ... In this paper I’m going to go back to some of these studies conducted, research their findings, and try to and explain how the results on television violence relate to children’s latest violent behavior. ... Among these, the killing of a New York principal while looking for a missing student was one of the most publicized in the country. ... This is one of the most notorious crime-ridden neighborhoods of New York City. ... Thus ended the life of one of the city’s most dedicated Principals whose 26-year struggle on behalf of his pupils had been featured in news articles and on national television. ... They may never find all the answers, but scientist are trying to explain how television violence promotes children’s temperamental nature, that continues into adulthood. According to the Institute for Social research, an aggressive behavior is a learned behavior, which, is being taught to children by the media violence that they are exposed day after day. ... Children in the United States watch Television an average of 7¼ hours per day, 5,000 hours by the first grade and 19,000 hours by the end of High school. These figures are alarming considering that’s more hours that children spend in school, and that the United States has the most violent television programming among industrialized nations. These facts affects the younger children more, since their perception of what is real and unreal is not as acute as an older adult. Meaning that aggressive adults learned their behavior as children and the more violence children watch the better the chances are for them to be violent when they are adults. Scientist has been looking at the program children watch and has come up with some shocking results.