Research Paper on:
Impact TV Violence Has on Children

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read to our entertainment choices violence seems to be an ever-present element. Our nations children are particularly susceptible to the growing depictions of violence, particularly in regard to the  amount of television programs they watch. Some contend that by allowing our children to include violent programs in their viewing choices we allow them an agent for catharsis, an  agent for purging their issues of violence in a non-destructive format. In reality, however, violence on television has proven to be a negative influence on our children. While  it does provide them role models, those role models are negative, not positive. Violence on television and other forms of the media has been proven, in fact, to encourage  deviant criminal behavior. In short, juveniles account for an amazing seventeen percent of the violent crimes in the United States (Scherer, Brondino, et.  al., 1994). The evidence linking many of these crimes with a growing graphical depiction of violence in the media is astounding to say the least. This relationship is  particularly concerning given that over the next thirteen years the number of juveniles under seventeen is projected to grow to approximately seventy-four million and that the number of violent crimes  committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action is taken these statistics could be even more disquieting as television, and the media in general,  continues on it upward spiral of graphical depictions of violence. Although violence penetrates every arm of the media, television is perhaps the most  threatening in terms of an adverse impact to children because it presents not only audible or written references to violence but full color visual references. Indeed, our youth are