Abstract

Few subjects attract the attention of the public and the media more than violent acts committed by children and adolescents. All too frequently, politicians, policy-makers, practitioners, the public and media become caught up in destructive cycles of blame, engendering within society itself a sense of helplessness and powerlessness for and about violent young people.

Highlights

  • From the earliest days of television, parents and social critics have expressed concern about tchheildpreonss. ibSlneydneerg,aitniveaneoffveecrtvsieowf othfe'mmoveideisa anodn the adolescent', emphasises that the adolescent of today, perhaps as much as any generation, is in search of identity (1992)

  • Within the cycles of abuse athned ivmioplaecntceofliwteirtanteusrseinagrevisotulednicees othnatchaildddrreens'ss later behaviour. These studies fall into three basic types: large-scale surveys that correlate self-reports of exposure to violence with adult approval of violence or marital violence; studies of the children of battered women; and studies of television violence and aggressive behaviour

  • Whether the aggression and violent behaviour measured in the television violence studies can be generalised beyond the laboratory to real life behaviour or delinquency or criminality has been seriously questioned

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Introduction

From the earliest days of television, parents and social critics have expressed concern about tchheildpreonss. ibSlneydneerg,aitniveaneoffveecrtvsieowf othfe'mmoveideisa anodn the adolescent', emphasises that the adolescent of today, perhaps as much as any generation, is in search of identity (1992). In the field of violent offending in juveniles, review of the mass of available research reveals three major and interacting risk areas: child centred, family centred and contextual.

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