Entertainment Violence Term Paper

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Entertainment Violence

In recent years, politicians and citizen groups have criticized the entertainment industry for its violent content, claiming that it is responsible for violence in society. However, many claim that this consensus is overblown and unfounded by substantial research.

There is considerable sociological and statistical data that suggests that violence begets violence and the root factor in the United States has been war, a continuous experience in one zone or another and one that has become "embedded in daily life through a highly militarized culture" (Cockburn 27). Japan, for example, has extreme violence on i
ts TV and moble screens, yet has a very low level of socal volence (Cockburn 27).

Accordng to the Federal Bureau of Investgaton, statstcs show that school volence s at ts lowest level n years despte the ncrease n volent vdeo game sales, therefore, how can there be a correlaton between volence n meda and youth crme (ACLU pg). A two-year study by the government funded Natonal Research Councl cted n ts 400-page report that the determnng factors for volence n socety were "poverty, access to weapons, communcatons sklls and drug use," exposure to volent entertanment.....

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