If parents can restrict their children from watching R-Rated movies, then they can restrict them from playing Rated-M for mature games. For me and many others, violent video games are a fun hobby. ... Playing violent video games did not have any harmful long term effects on me. ... I meet people my age and people older than me to communicate. ... As a young kid video games made me think quickly. ...
Like me, I want to play video games forever. ... Sutherland, Rory, the author of " More Grand Theft Auto, less crime ", contends that video games help to reduce the crime rate: Evidence to link falling crime rates and the growth of computer games, however, may be more significant. ... What about me and other players? Nothing happened to me because I just play for whatever the game's purpose is. I kill people and they kill me with sportsmanship; I sell things to people and they sell it back to me. ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report in September 2000 that found that most adult-rated shows, films, music and video games were marketed to children ("Television Content"). ... With this noticeable increase in violence appearing in television programs, the juvenile crime rate has increased. ... " TV did have an effect on me right from the beginning in the first grade, I was a member of a four kid gang that went around imitating TV westerns" (Brandon Tradeoff, NBC). ... It can be used by parents to block out any shows that are rated as violent or sexually explicit ("Television ...
Another reason that makes me think that they shouldn't have different gun control laws in different places is because I knew a person that buys guns in New York, and some how got them over here and sells them to people by tripling the price. I have asked him how he got them over here, but he never told me how he did it. He told me that he has done this for many years until one time he got caught when he was selling them and was jailed for 6 or 7 months. ... According to the FBI estimate the homicide rate is beginning to fall from 7.0 to 6.2 per 10,000 in 1998.8 This tells us that not many...
This is a very interesting, and sensitive topic for me because I am a rape victim and I believe society and the idea of rape culture have a lot to do with the increasing rape cases throughout the years. ... Increased divorce rates and recessions lead people to become violent. ... This is the reason why there is such low conviction rate of rapists. ...
However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. ... Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. ... But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because of the homicide rate involving guns and because of the violence created by criminals using guns. ... Denmark and Finland also have high rates of gun ownership and low crime rates. The experience of these countries shows that widespread gun possession is compatible with low crime ra...
Research has shown that in neighborhoods where there is high rate of divorce, residential turnover, temporary people with no roots in the community, single parent families and poverty, the incidence of juvenile violence and crimes is high. ... They paid little attention me and my younger sister. ... I wanted my parents to buy me toys, take me out to eat and play, and just spend time with me. ... They were all older than me and they really took care of me. Many times, they gave me what I wanted and asked for. ...
It's hard to take Freedmans side because of the influence I have see with young people around me, people I hung around or know. ... I am unable to see if in fact that they become mass murders at age 30 will take 12 more years to figure out since they are the same age as me. ... I grew up in a house were I couldn't watch rated R movies till I was in high school. Of course that didn't stop me though. ... In that the permission of watching R rated movies at the age of 7 or 8 was not need, but taken upon himself to decipher on which movie to watch. ...
At this rate, the average American child will see 8,000 murders before they finish elementary school! ... We should remember the words of the father in Harry Chapin's song "Cat's in the Cradle" when he comes to realize his son "He's grown up just like me. My boy was just like me." ...
Men in this age group according to the author have a high propensity for violence and have a high victimization rate. ... The reasons the author gives in explaining why violence occurs leads me to believe that Courtwright would be against the prison system as a solution to American violence. ...
As a result of war, I will be giving my own experience on how war has impacted my brother and me as children. ... Now let me focus your attention on some of the major effects of war on children. ... One of my friends who was really good on playing basketball, always told me that there is no way he will ever become a basketball star. ... There are also higher rates of STDs and increased rates of HIV transmission found in refugee camps because men often engage with sex workers, rape of children is common, and there is often insufficient access to reproductive health services" (In refugee c...
They found that as the violence rose, the rates of homicide, violence, and weapon-carrying actually dropped. ... While this is also a game you can buy at Wal-Mart, rated "E" for "Everyone". ... Furthermore, millions of people bought and played Doom, including me. ...
The United States is now the world leader in its rate of incarceration. ... But it seems to me that there are some other reasons, apart from the material and affective, which can turn a child into a violent person, for example: social, psychological reasons (having been neglected or abused) etc. ... It seems to me that they would become more violent adults, as Jeffrey Fagan says in his report. ... It seems to me that rehabilitation carried out by experts in a strict and friendly place in order to make them conscious of what they have done should be enough punishment. ...
How Does Television Violence Affect Children's Behavior How Does Television Violence Affect Children's Behavior 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 to 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 watc...
For me I will stand on the grounds that it is the individual who is in control of their actions and not some virtual console. ... The game is rated "Mature audiences only" which requires you to be 18 or in some cases 21 to purchase the game. ... Can a murder get acquitted by saying Crash bandicoot made me do it, or that GTA V was the reason they ran down 5 pedestrians. ...
Turning focus off of oneself onto an 'M' rated (Mature) video game destroys the very notion that individuals should take accountability for their actions. ... In the article, M-Rated Video Games and Aggressive or Problem Behavior Among Young Adolescents, the definition of aggression is in and of itself inconsistent. ... In the article, M-Rated Video Games and Aggressive or Problem Behavior Among Young Adolescents, it discusses how in today's society video games have become the norm for the average child growing up in America. ...
Even though they are rated for mature users, teens have little trouble finding an opportunity to play games where consequences are almost always never shown. ... It would seem to me that each case is different and unique from every other case. ... I think this research has led me to conclude that while there are many factors that influence violence at school, it boils down to what is in the hearts and minds of those who attack others. ... I don't think I can solve the problem of school violence, but this research has allowed me to look more closely at the students in my own school and ...
Bisexual youth appear to experience higher rates of interpersonal violence than gay and lesbian youth, although the exact reason for this is not fully known. ... Courtney says, "At first I was a little skeptical about dating someone with a two year age difference but I couldn't help my physical attraction towards her, how she was self-dependent, popular, and continuously showed her growing love and affection towards me"." ... At times, her girlfriend would verbally abuse Courtney by saying, "If it wasn't for me Courtney, you wouldn't have anything. ...
For example, Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people before killing himself left a note that said, "You made me do this.... According to the Jefferson County, Colorado, Sheriff's Department in one of his journals Klebold wrote "I swear-like I'm and outcast & everyone is conspiring against me" ("Rejection, bullying and risk factors among shooters," 2012, par. 9). ...
I will start by examining the evolutionary examinations associated with masculinity and violence, which will then lead me on to discuss the critical of social theories in relevance to the topic. ... Hatty suggests that the rapid decline in 'traditional working class males' and employment rates, provokes a 'crisis on masculinity' (2006). ...
ough what they experience on television, children are forced into adulthood at too young of an age. The innocence of youth is lost when children stare endlessly at a screen displaying the horrors of murder, rape, assault, devastating fire, and other natural disasters. Although these are occurrenc...
The typical R-rated, 90 minute film include between fourteen and twenty-one sex acts and unlike television most acts are visually portrayed. ... A version of Shaggy's hit "It Wasn't Me" talks about a man getting caught cheating "butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor." ...
Gerbner and Gross discovered violent acts occur on American television at a rate of five acts per prime-time hour and eighteen acts per weekend daytime hour (Huesmann, Eron, and Legerspetz). ... "I kept asking myself why anyone would want to do that to Marie-Eve, and it suddenly occurred to me that it might well be the result of all the violence that my sister and I used to watch on television." . ...
