• Exam #2 is Friday April 23 at 10:10 am in 119 Osmond Building.
• Please bring a #2 pencil and spread out when you arrive.

Lecture Notes:

VIOLENCE EDUCATION

Exposure to violence

• entertainment media
• tv, books, magazines, music, videos
• dramatizations of murder, rape, beatings
• streets/community
• fighting, mugging, killing
• home
• domestic disputes
• child abuse, neglect
• school
• bullying, fights
• at lunchtime, recess
• hitting, kicking, punching, pushing, shoving

• 1:5 (20%) of 8th graders have been threatened with a weapon
• 1:10 (10%) of 8th graders have been injured with a weapon while they were at school
• 1:2 (50%) have had property stolen
• 22% have carried a weapon in the last 30 days

• aggressor effect: tendency for people who watch many hours of TV to behave violently
• fearfulness: TV heightens fear of becoming a victim of violence
• bystander effect: people become callous and desensitized to acts of violence
• cyclical effect: aggressive children who watch a lot of violent TV tend to identify with the violent characters and seek out more violent TV