Juvenile Crime | Violence in the Media Contributes to Juvenile Crime

Today, the media are providing our children with many, perhaps most, of their role models. Kids like to emulate their role models. Tragically, media-inspired copycat crimes are now a fact of life. This is the part of juvenile crime reporting that the TV networks would rather not talk about.

Research in the 1970s demonstrated the existence of “cluster suicides” in which the local TV reporting of teen suicides directly caused numerous copycat suicides by impressionable teenagers. Somewhere in every population there are potentially suicidal kids who will say to themselves,...

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