The Effects Of Violence On Children 's Violence

The media is generally seen by people as a way of conveying the truth. If something is seen on TV, has been heard on the radio or something has been read in the newspapers then it is perceived as being the truth. Throughout history the media has been used as a tool to convey different messages to people. The issue of the behavior of children when exposed to violence on media has been an issue to be debated upon and studied for a very long time. There are many devices that children have access to of late which include video games, iPods, iPads, DVDs, computers and so on. Children are often said to be impressionable, this means that they do not see the world in the same way as adults do. Children tend to see things the way they are. They take things literally as they do not posses the sensibilities that are sophisticated to make a distinction between reality and fiction (Limit TV, 2010).

Juveniles cases can get transferred to a criminal court through a process called a “waiver.” Factors that contribute to a reasonable and fair waiver includes the minor committing a serious crime, having a lengthy criminal record, unsuccessful past rehabilitation or that youth services would have to work with the defender for a long period of time. Currently, today 2 states, Kansas and Vermont have statuary provisions for trying children as young as 10 years old, while another handful of states are trying to move forward with similar legislation. In comparison, the state of Tennessee there is no minimum age for juveniles being transferred to adult criminal courts We all know the saying, “Old enough to do the crime, old enough to do the crime.” However, is this statement true at all? Americans first started to realize the problem, when the term “juvenile superpredators” was coined in the late 1990’s.

Surroundings, behaviour, childhood experiences and frequent traumas are imperative factors during the early stages of one’s life due to how it may affect them as a person. “Naturally we are all born with a different genetic make up but many argue that differences in DNA do not create a psychokiller. The main focus of many criminologists and psychologists are the origins and the surroundings of these killers childhood” (“Serial”). While growing up, potential serial murderers exposed to abuse or traumas will seek for emotional relief through acts of violence such as harming a younger sibling or animals. “Serial killers generally seek control over the life of another, and at a younger age a small animal is the only type of creature they will be able to fully dominate” (“Early”)”.

Bill Henry worked in the department of psychology in Denver, Colorado and he claims that there are two factors affecting participation in animals. “If a child from the age of 13 and younger experience animal abuse or witness it they are more likely to keep doing it later in their lifetime. For those who are older than 13 years of age and experience such a terrible act think of it as cruelty.” (Henry)

This context of violence promotes child maltreatment as there is a big portion of the United States population that suffers psychological and emotional problems, alcoholism, depression, drug abuse, eating disorders, obesity, high-risk sexual behaviors, smoking, and physical assault. Additionally, this context of violence promotes child maltreatment as there are people who haver poor knowledge of child development.

This study focuses on evaluating the potential causal relationship between animal cruelty and later violent offenses, as well as the factors that form the foundation of that potential relationship. This study served to further a good deal of past research, most notably the work done by MacDonald (1963), who introduced the threesome of fire setting, enuresis, and cruelty of animals as predictors of aggression. Although there has not been a good deal of research linking the first two aspects to future violence, much research has focused on the relationship between animal cruelty and aggression. However, the majority of these studies had limited causal application as a result of using either a cross-sectional design or being dependent upon participant reflection on events that occurred decades earlier. Thus, this study sought not only to determine whether a causal relationship existed, but also if factors such as age, sex, or race played a role in predicting aggressive behavior. The researchers presented four hypotheses. First, they predicted that animal cruelty would predict aggressive offenses after controlling for age, sex, race, and early onset of behavior problems. The second hypothesis held that violence against animals would serve as a stronger predictor of aggressive offenses than of non-aggressive offenses. In their third hypothesis, researchers predicted that sex would serve as a moderator variable in the relationship between animal cruelty and aggressive offending.

One such study explored whether the method of childhood animal abuse was related to repeated acts of adult interpersonal violence among 261 incarcerated inmates convicted of violent crimes (murder/attempted murder, rape/attempted rape, and aggravated assault). The researchers examined the relationship between six methods of animal cruelty—drowning, hitting or kicking, shooting, choking, burning, and having sex with an animal—and the number of times inmates had been convicted of violent crimes. Inmates who had drowned animals or who had sex with animals as children or teens were more likely to have committed repeated acts of interpersonal violence.12 What’s the common connection between drowning and having sex with an animal and committing murder, rape and aggravated assault? They all involve controlling and overpowering another

People don’t know the full scope of animal cruelty, but they should know so they can properly report situations. People might not understand the ways in which animal cruelty can show itself and may not know the frequency and effects of these criminal acts today. Animal cruelty, briefly defined, is the inadequate caring, beating, hurting, or some other abuse/neglect of an animal. Animal cruelty is an illegal act in the United States, but there is a controversial discussion around whether animals have rights in the first place. There are many different cases and situations of animal abuse, but the main ones include dog fighting and animal neglect and abuse.

In order to constitute animal cruelty as a Crime Against Humanity we must prove that society is ignoring the violence towards them despite the research evidence, the government sanctions mass killings of them, and that this type of violence affects humans on a large scale (Plant, Schaik, Gullone, & Flynn 2016). Although dispositional factors such as empathy and aggression may influence animal cruelty, we must look at the environmental factors that lead to the negative effects from a macro-level perspective. In this analysis, I will review whether exposure to animal cruelty correlates with future maladaptive behaviors and the damaging effects it may have when perpetrated at a large scale.

It has been said that children are like sponges when it comes to attaining knowledge. This seems to be true whether they are learning to speak or how to show emotion. Feelings and emotions become more imminent once children begin to go through adolescents. Children acquire the ability to aggression, sadness, and happiness more readily. Males typically exhibit higher levels of aggression then females according to some research. Within the realm of learning children imitate what they see constantly, whether it be through TV, magazines ,movies, or radio. Media plays a strong role on how children act to different situations that they may have seen. Sometimes the

Children often experience certain situations at a young age that potentially scar them throughout their lives. It is said that a handful of children are victims of assault, and most have witnessed violent acts. When children witness these deviant acts, this creates a dramatic scene that continuously replays in their minds, and it also creates strategies of how children may adjust to their futures. An example of this, let’s take a child who was exposed to some sort of violence, and let’s take a child who wasn’t exposed. The child who was exposed to violence is much more likely to be neglected, and that could lead to abusive relationships when they reach adulthood.

From Criminal Minds, to YouTube videos, to Xbox games, violent behavior is relentlessly represented by multiple types of media sources. Depictions of murders, sexual assaults, fighting and more are now constants in adolescent lives. Is this what causes violence in adolescents? Or is a biological pre-disposition ultimately responsible? These are questions that have been widely debated by many elite health professionals over the years. In Sharon Begley’s essay, “Why the Young Kill” she expresses the idea that while adolescent violence is related to exposure to violence due to their surroundings, bad parenting, etc. it is also blatantly evident that biological predisposition is a reality. In Hillary Clinton’s speech “Media Violence and Children,” she asserts that the enormous amount of violence being reported in the media is affecting the development of the brain and is causing the rise in violence in adolescents. An amalgamation of exposure to traumatic events in childhood, a persistent focus on violence by the media, and a biological predisposition are the key contributing factors that lead to adolescent violence.

Violence has become a prevalent component in today’s society at an increasingly alarming rate. This is due to the fact that in the past few decades, it has become a “norm” for the increase of violence in our everyday lives. In recent years, people have become accustomed to witnessing or experiencing violence wherever they go, that it has almost become an omnipresent threat, since the increase of violence causes desensitization among society. With the desensitization problem continuing to grow, many people are beginning to be unsure what violence truly is. According to the merriam-webster dictionary, violence is an “intense, turbulent or furious and often destructive action or force.” many people are unaware what violence truly is, and according to the merriam-webster dictionary, it is among the top 10% of the searches for the site. A large fragment of the problem has to do with the integration of violence into our entertainment outlets including, but not limited to music, movies and TV shows.

Explanation: When people in their childhood and adolescence abuse animal they are related to family violence.

Television has become one of the most, if not the most, used form of entertainment for all ages. Every TV show has some kind of age limit whether it’s rated G or R, it’s not always easy for parents to moderate what their children are watching. Young children are very moldable, not only by the people around them, but what is on TV. I have conducted an experiment to see how much violence and aggression are in everyday television shows that children are likely to watch. I have watched three different half hour TV shows, tallying the amount of aggressive, and prosocial behaviors that occur on the shows. The first show watched was a typical Saturday morning TV show, SpongeBob. The second show watched is a prosocial TV program, Sesame Street. The third show watched is an adult cartoon, Family Guy, which is meant for adults but a high population of children are the audience. The independent variable of this experiment is the different levels of each show’s aggression or prosocial behaviors. The dependent variable is the aggression or prosocial level of the TV show, since I have no child to study for this project. This experiment very much relates to another experiment called the Bobo Doll experiment. Children in the experiment are from ages 3-6 are either shown an aggressive video of the Bobo doll beaten, or a video with nothing aggressive. The results showed that the majority of children who were shown the aggression video imitated the same actions and more to the Bobo doll. The