Term Papers on Impact Of Television Violence In Relation To Juvenile Delinquency

Term Paper Title	Impact Of Television Violence In Relation To Juvenile Delinquency
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Impact of Television Violence In Relation To Juvenile Delinquency

        When children are taught how to tie their shoes, it is because of how
their parents showed them.  When children are taught how to do math problems it
is because how their teachers show them.  With all of the role models how does
television effect our children?
        Many adults feel that because they watched television when they were
young and they have not been negatively affected then their children should not
be affected as well.  What we must first realize is that television today is
different than television of the past, violence is more prevalent in todays
programming unlike the true family programming of the past.

EFFECTS OF TELEVISION - THE BEGINNING

        Questions about the effects of television violence have been around
since the beginning of television. The first mention of a concern about
television's effects upon our children can be found in many Congressional
hearings as early as the 1950s.  For example, the United States Senate Committee
on Juvenile Delinquency held a series of hearings during 1954-55 on the impact
of television programs on juvenile crime. These hearings were only the beginning
of continuing congressional investigations by this committee and others from the
1950s to the present.
        In addition to the congressional hearings begun in the 1950s, there are
many reports that have been written which include: National Commission on the
Causes and Prevention of Violence (Baker & Ball, 1969); Surgeon General's
Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior (1972); the
report on children and television drama by the Group for the Advancement of
Psychiatry (1982); National Institute of Mental Health, Television and Behavior
Report (NIMH, 1982; Pearl, Bouthilet, & Lazar, 1982); National Research Council
(1993), violence report; and reports from the American Psychological
Association's "Task Force on Television and Society" (Huston, et al., 1992) and
"Commission on Violence and Youth" (American Psychological Association, 1992;
Donnerstein, Slaby, & Eron, 1992). All of these reports agree with each other
about the harmful effects of television violence in relation to the behavior of
children, youth, and adults who view violent programming.
        The only thing that we know about the effects of exposure to violence
and the relationship towards juvenile delinquency we gather from correlational,
experimental and field studies that demonstrate the effects of this viewing on
the attitudes and behavior of children and adults.
        Children begin watching television at a very early age, sometimes as
early as six months, and are intense viewers by the time that they are two or
three years old. In most cases the amount of televised viewing becomes greater
with age and then tapers off during adolescence. ).  The violence that is viewed
is more important than the amount of television that is viewed.  According to
audience rating surveys, the typical American household has the television set
on for more than seven hours each day and children age 2 to 11 spend an average
of 28 hours per week viewing. (Andreasen, 1990; Condry, 1989; Liebert & Sprafkin,
1988)
        The most important documentation of the amount of violence viewed by
children on television are the studies conducted by Gerbner and his colleagues
on the nature of American television programs. The results of these yearly
analyses of the amount of violence on American television for the 22-year period
1967-89 indicate a steady but growing high level of violence. (Gerbner &
Signorielli, 1990)   Programs especially designed for children, such as cartoons
are the most violent of all programming.  How many times have we all seen the
Coyote try to kill the RoadRunner? GI Joe and many other programs also represent
violence and the use of deadly weapons.
        Overall, the levels of violence in prime-time programming have averaged
about five acts per hour and children's Saturday morning program...

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