The Violent Tendencies Fed By Violent Words Charter In

Violent media exposure of children or adults to violent media is a cause of aggression and violent behavior has been one of the most intensely debated issues in criminal justice and the broader populace. Concern have come and gone that media such as comic books, as well as television and movies, would lead to waves of rebelliousness, violence, and moral degradation. Sherry

In his article “Violent Media Is Good For Kids,” comic book author Gerald Jones, claims that violent media such as comic books and cartoons can have a positive effect on our children because children use violent stories to meet their emotional and developmental needs. Jones argues against other people’s views that violent media will have a negative influence on children. Gerald Jones had many strengths in his article which helped support his argument and could possible make his argument effective. His strengths were mainly the use of emotional appeal like story telling and personal experiences to help convince his audience. While Jones’s essay started off strong, he only gave a few weaknesses like the lack of examples and how he only used one reference, his life, to justify his point of view which in the end did not help persuade the audience.

Violence take multiple forms, many of which are covered in the nightly news. Murder, rape, familial abuse, bullying, workplace hostility, armed robbery—all of these are societal problems with far-reaching repercussions. There have long debates and discussions regarding whether nature or nurture influences individual violent behavior. People are concerned about what makes an individual to engage in violent behavior such murder or burglary among other types of crimes. They are also concerned about what makes people stop such behavior. However, there is no precise conception whether nature, nurture or both influence violence. Some people assume that, violent behavior results from individual’s life experiences or upbringing also known as nurture. Others feel that violent behavior is more complex and results from individual’s genetic character or nature. In other words, it is not clear whether violent behavior is inborn or occurs at some point in persons’ lives, but even it’s hard, emphasizing one and ignoring other influences is always an unwise way to go.

From infancy onward, parents and teachers have drilled into the young generation that violence should be avoided at all costs. They have preached cooperation, tolerance, and “using one’s words” as tactics to combat difficult situations. Although those lessons are valid, Gerald Jones claims there is an alternative way. In his essay, “Violent Media is Good for Kids,” Jones argues that “creative violence- bonking cartoons, bloody videogames, toy guns-gives children a tool to master their rage” (Jones). In other words, media violence, used correctly, can serve as an alternative method for powering through adolescence. By reading and writing violent stories, children are able to express

In the United States children watch an average of three to fours hours of television daily (Cantor & Wilson, 1984, p. 28). Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent. Studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may become insensitive to violence. Consequently, they tend to gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems by imitating the violence they observe on television; and they identify with certain characters, good or bad. Therefore, extensive viewing of television violence by children causes greater

Many African Americans are being stereotyped in many of these tv-shows and in mainstream media, ¨Suggest that African American has used strategies in dealing with biased based images of black people” (Fujioka, Yuki). The most use strategies to protect themselves from possible negative influences. Also in films, violence used to show how African Americans solve problems. These white viewers see this and think to that to show how African Americans act. Makes them think what they put on television that think “Why should we be here?” The television influence all this because most of the time they act like this because of television. They watch it as they they grew up and think it is acceptable to behave this way. They stereotype African Americans

Τhe African-American boy was awoken by the sound of gunshots on his television where a hard-core gangster movie played on his television.The film showed African-American being involved in a shootout. The next year the same young man was involved in a homicide and was arrested and taken away from his family.Media plays a huge part in how people look at African-Americans. TV shows, video games , the radio, movies, commercials, social media,and etc all have a huge influence on people of all ages. If the media is examined closely a lot of negative messages and stereotypes break down African Americans in society. Although black youth may regard the media as a positive influence,it diminishes the images of African Americans by portraying them in a negative light.Therefore the media should fight to get more positive black influence.

The claim states that children and adults who are exposed to the media are aggressive and violent. According to such articles, violent content provokes aggressive behavior and violence. Ferguson illustrates that watching satanic content, like in Harry Potter, or teaching of witchcraft can lead to Satanism or mental illness. According to Ferguson (2008), books, rock, jazz, television and watching movies in the media, leads to a wave of moral degradation, rebelliousness and violence. They also clam that new media like internet and video games inevitably cause fear and waves of politicians, and advocates raise concerns over the fate of vulnerable teenagers and children. This point of view raises a lot of controversy in respect to violence in television, and film fiction raising the question whether such violence causes further violent behavior in viewers (Ferguson, 2008).

Later in life, those violent behaviors patterns persist in social relationships. In the criminology text book it states that “Although social learning theorist agree that mental or physical traits may predispose a person toward violence, they believe a person’s violent tendencies are activated by factors in the environment”. This means that specific form of aggressive behavior, the frequency with which it is expressed, the situations in which it is displayed the specific targets selected for attack are largely determined by social learning. Social learning theorist view violence as something learned through behavior modeling. Today aggressive acts are usually modeled after family interactions, environmental experiences and mass media.

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’”. In the article “Violent Media Is Good for Children”, the author Jones Gerard suggests that the violent stories in comic books and other media have a developmental functioning the lives of young children. I support the discussion by the author of the article based on the fact that though children should not be encouraged to express openly emotions such as fear, greed and range, they should have a way to let out such emotions in a non-confrontational way. Further, comic books will help the children learn to embrace the emotions of rage and fear and channel them for better use other than resorting to conflict. Violent media can also be important to help children to take control over their feelings and emotions.

Statistics indicate many aggressors at some point or another have witnessed acts of violence. During childhood, these observed behaviors can have a major impact and influence on adolescent and adult attitudes, perception of self and others. "Children become more susceptible and prone to negative and dangerous behaviors which can

These results correlate highly with the social learning theory on aggressive behavior. Those exposed to substantial violence and aggression were likely to imitate it later on in life. However, while an observational study can elicit enlightening results, they do not provide much on practical, empirical evidence. What the researchers did was observe behavior exhibited by the individuals they studied; they did not control the amount of violence the individuals were being exposed nor were they preventing others from being exposed to such programming. Thus, this study can not be deemed as an “experiment”. While they tried eliminating the lurking variables that may plague the results of their findings, it would be impossible to eliminate every possible influence other than the television exposure through an observational study.

          Due to violence on television, children become less sensitive to that pain and suffering of others or to become more aggressive to others. It also makes children more fearful to the world around them. (Abelard 1) Viewing habits of children observed for many decades deduced that violence on TV is associated with aggressive behavior, more than poverty, race, or parental behavior. It also reported that a TV show contains about 20 acts of violence an hour.

Television is a big part of today’s society. Everybody watches television, including the children. There is a potential problem with letting children watch television. Ask this question, would someone let their own child watch some of the programming that they watch, too? Some of these programs are intended for the adult generation, not young children. Violence has a major role in television these days. Letting children watch this violence could corrupt their minds and eventually lead to bad behavior. There needs to be a limitation on the types of television programming that parents let their children watch, because violence in television can negatively affect children.

In the book Critique of Violence ,author Walter describes Violence as "The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, male development, or deprivation .The violence that is portrayed in the media has been debated for decades ,and it has rose a question about how does it influence the youth?. From movies to video games society has been accustom to seeing violence in their everyday entertainment. Since children are easy to be influence by their environment, it is safe to say that violence in the media can and will contribute to violent behavior.