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Violence on TV

VIOLENCE ON TV FICTION REALITY ESTIMATEDHAT CHILDESNER THAT BY THE TIME A KINDER 8,000 MURDERS 8,000 THEY WILL HAVE WITNESSED AND NEARLY 100,000 ACTS OF VIOLENCE ON TV. THEY WILL BY 18 WITNESS 800.000 ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND 40,000 MURDERS. AND THE VIOLENCE ONTY INCREASING. AMOUNT OF 8PM 45.3% INCREASE 9PM 92.1% INCREASE 1998 10 PM 167% INCREASE 2006 INSTANCES OF VIOLENCE ACCORDING TO A STUDY DONE W INCREASED VIOLENCE ON TV WILL ONLY LEAD TO MORE REAL WORLD VIOLENCE. BOBO DOLL EXPERIMENT In 1961, Alert Bandura studied the effect of violence on children by showing them a scene where an adult violently attacks a bobo doll. Calif Comm tions of est-ran cials. startec The mally cian into lo's off Dele ing D ers ar as 1 the dress Bandura found that when children were put in a room with a bobo doll after viewing the footage, the children attacked the doll just like they had seen the adult do. This led Bandura to conclude that children act out the violent behavior modeled by adults. So, if that were true, it stands to reason that with increased violence on TV, the US would see an explosion of violence in the HOW DO KIDS REACT TO VIOLENCE? real worid. ON IS NOT AT ALL REAL TV REFLECTIVE OF MORLD VIOLENCE TV vs REALITY* TV REAL WORLD MURDER OTHER CRIMES VIOLENT CRIMES NON-VIOLENT CRIMES OUT OF AN 250 CHARACTERS AVERAGE THAT APPEAR DURING PRIME TIME EVERY EVENING ARE KILLED EACH NIGHT. TV REAL WORLD | 2% .00001% of people in the U.S are killed every day of characters are killed every night TO PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE: YOU ARE 200,000 TIMES HESS MURDERED LIKELY THAN A CHARACTER ON TV. DESPITE THE DRAMATIC RISE IN TV VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE IS DECLINING ACROSS VIOLENT CRIMES PER 100,000 PERSONS IN THE U.S. 7000 TOTAL CRIME 6000 VIOLENT 5000 4000 RAPE MURDER 700 600 500 400 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 TIWIRE DEXTER WALKING LEAD LAW&ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNITA THE SHIELD 2006 2010 1999 24 SSNS A SONSOFANARCHY 2001 SThe Sópfanos 2002 SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. ARISTOTLE• OVER 2000. THEORIZED THAT WATCHING YEARS AGO VIOLENT ACTS PORTRAYED ON STAGE SERVED AS A RELEASE OF THE COLLECTIVE VIOLENT TENDENCIES OF THE AUDIENCE, WHAT HE TERMED CATHARSIS. IS FICTIONAL VIOLENCE TRULY A CATALYST VIOLENCE? FOR REAL-WORLD *BASED ON LAW ENFORCEMENT /CRIME REALITY SHOWS, SOURCES • FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Homicide Data for 2010: http://www.fbi.govlabout-us/cjis/ucr/orime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expandhamicidemain • Bushman, Brad J., and Anderson, Craig A. "Media Violence and the American Public." American Psychologist, June/July, 2001. • Parents Television Council. "Dying to Entertain" 2007: http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/violencestudy/exsummary.asp • Albert Bandura, et al. "Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models Journal of Abnormal and Social Psyohology, 63, 1961 • US Crime Rates: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm • Huston, A.C. et al. Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. • Aristotle. Poetics. (A long, long time ago.) YourLocalSecurity.com ABOUT 00

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