Untitled Essay Research Paper IMPACT OF TELEVISION

Untitled Essay, Research Paper

IMPACT OF TELEVISION VIOLENCE

IN RELATION TO JUVENILE DELINQUENCYTABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionEffects Of Television – The BeginningCorrelational ExperimentsField

ExperimentsCause And Effects On Types Of ChildrenConclusionReferences

113568When 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 BEGINNINGQuestions 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.

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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 programs have averaged about 20 to 25

violent acts per hour. (Lichter & Amundson, 1992) However a recent survey by the

Center for Media and Public Affairs identified 1,846 violent scenes broadcast and

cablecast between 6 a.m. to midnight during one day in Washington, D.C. The most violent

periods were between 6 to 9 a.m. with 497 violent scenes (165.7 per hour) and between 2 to

5 p.m. with 609 violent scenes (203 per hour). (Lichter & Amundson, 1992) Most of this

violence is shown during hours that are not generally viewed by the adults therefore

violence in the early morning and afternoon is viewed by children and youth.CORRELATIONAL EXPERIMENTSWhat are the effects of this televised violence o

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