Media Violence | Media Violence Harms Children

Madeline Levine is a psychologist and the author of Viewing Violence: How Media Violence Affects Your Child’s and Adolescent’s Development, from which the following viewpoint is taken. Levine argues that the violence depicted on television and in motion pictures has been proven to be damaging to children’s social and psychological development. She asserts that media violence contributes to the youth crime rate by providing encouragement and instruction in antisocial and violent behavior. Media company executives, she concludes, are failing to meet their social responsibility to...

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