Is there a link between violence on-screen (film and game consolsand rising levels of violence/crime in socety

Question

if there is how would you decribe it?

thanks x

Answer 1

i would describe it as a 'desensitisation'

Nothing seems to shock now.

Answer 2

NO!!! I am tired of parents and political morons saying that violent video games cause violence. It is the parents fault for not reading the rating on the game or not telling there children that none of the stuff is real. the parents need to pay more attention to there children if they just leave them in front of the television for hours something MIGHT happen but the odds are very unlikely.

Answer 3

With Convience being the biggest drug in the world, and with Tele-vision you get 60 frames per second, people begin to unconsiencely develope a repetative thought behavior, and start expecting things in an instant.

T.V. sounds like a great baby-sitter, but kids will start expecting/demanding more than they would before.

Ever seen a 30 to 50 year old act like a little kid?

Whaaaaaaaaaah!!!

Answer 4

Around the time when the Law changed re DVD's / Videos and p**n, a colleague mentioned the word ''Disgusted'' in his statement on the subject.

'Pornography' is a subjective term as is 'Prostitute', for we all sell our selves and our bodies (well, I took mine to work with me!) ~ and it seemed to me (as I said to him) that I could go home and switch on my TV and watch two or more people being pretty nasty to each other. I could go to the cinema and with hundreds of others watch more or MANY more being violent towards each other.

I could watch shootings with all manner of weaponry, stabbings, garrotting, poisoners, bombers and watch mayhem with fists and swords etc.

I could see couples being utterly nasty to each other and issuing threats of all kinds, blackmail, emotional blackmail and any other variation on the theme.  But, to actually watch two people being  'Very Nice' to each other and to 'Pleasure' each other.........!

Something is off kilter, somewhere.

As to your question > a link between violence on-screen (film and game consolsand rising levels of violence/crime in society  <

'De-sensitivity' I believe is one of the answers.  Years ago I read that the average American 18 year old, by the time s/he reaches that age, will have witnessed some 20,000+ deaths on the screen.

If there are that many, and if there is no understanding of the 'pain from a punch', let alone that of a 'bullet', or the mayhem and emotional reactions to violence itself, then how are you goings to see and understand what violence does in all of its strands of effect!

Generally, when a human being is shot, the first reaction of the victim is 'shock', on two levels.  On the conscious level and then on the physical (body) level.  Generally, the bodies when it goes into shock (which can in itself cause death), it shuts down all those 'none essential systems', and to do so it evacuates the bowel and the bladder, leaving the victim in a potentially smelly messy state.........

Generally speaking, those that are perpetrators of violence have no understanding of this either, and by the time you have become a desensitised voyeur to 20,000 deaths, why should you know and why should you care?

What do they likely know of ‘care’, other than a cerebral answer.

Sash.

Answer 5

no. movies imitate life.

Answer 6

if that were true, wouldn't we be far more violent today than pre- industrial societies with no tv? but the romans used to have crucifixions and put people to death in the arena, The vikings would carve the blood eagle on people, inquisitors stretched people on the rack or burned them at the stake. yet not a single one of these violent acts can be blamed on TV or video games.

also, crime rates have been going down for the last 10 years or so.

Answer 7

Let us study what is violence. How and why it explodes.

The definition for violence is: “an act of aggression as one against a person who resists. It is also violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked.”

It is a force. It is a powerful vibration.  Also carries negative influence on the human tendency. It promotes unhealthy behaviors. It can dismiss the faculty of discrimination-the power of judgment. It will shove a man in destructive nature. It shuts the door of human values. It converts a person into an animal. These high tempered destructive feelings sprout from the ego conscious. Ego is its seat. If it gets hurt then such vicious forces develop in his mind and envelop the intellect and disable it from reflecting. A person over powered by such antagonistic forces looses his balance and acts differently to his normal behavior.

Mind generates feelings. Feelings are converted into thoughts. Thoughts promote actions. If mind is under the control of intellect and seeking its help to judge the intensity of proposed action then never such vicious or hostile manners develop in man. Therefore, it is evident that, an inflicted ego drives the mind to over ride the intellect and fall on the opponent with surging emotions and hostile nature with an intention to grab an object, to inflict an injury physically or mentally or by both, to try to curb his opponent’s legitimate freedom of speech and living, to try to isolate his opponent from rest of the world-called Violence. This sprouts from different directions. They are (1) domestic violence. (a) physical. (b) Sexual violence (c) psychological violence (2) School violence. (3) Road rage-exhibited by drivers in traffic. (4) Public violence-demonstrations etc. To curb violence government agencies are equipped with necessary powers to take stringent actions. This is one way to arrest the violence. But, how religion can help heal the deceased mind? How it can promote healthy attitude in one’s behavior?  Religion is an incredible psychological force. With suitable scientific methods the aggressive inherent tendencies or natural inborn hostile expression can be modified into a socially acceptable manner. There are celebrated examples in our legends. Sage Narada transformed Rathnakar, a hostile dacoit into Sage Valmiki. Lord Buddha transformed a dacoit into meek and humble natured with His spiritual force.  The great Krishna Bhaktha Jaya Dev of Bengal changed Dacoit Madai into a humble devotee. Mr. Havelock Ellis, the famous psychologist and author of a book “The psychology of Sex” says, in his words “sexual passion was largely sublimated into intellectual passion” A true religious master can transform such hard lined person of a society into a mere socially acceptable manner. To achieve this Sage Pantanjali (Maharishi) of Hindu religion has written Yoga Sutras under the name “Pantanjali Yoga Sutras” also known as Raja Yoga. It is fully equipped with vibrant teachings of the Great Sage. All His scientifically proven theories and techniques to control the mind have been widely practiced all over the world. No other religion has set down such advanced and scientifically proven theories so far.    

Coming to discuss about school violence I venture to say that a portion of accountability falls on parents. Home is the first learning center of children. Mother plays a very important role in bringing up child with all cultures and elderly respect. Child receives his art of wording from mother only while father gives social security. Circumstances and surroundings of their home remarkably influence their tender minds. Every move and incident will enter in their minds as a lesson. Parents should exercise utmost endurance, dignity, compatibility, mutual love and respect on each other to promote a healthy atmosphere in their living. Also parents should fill homely atmosphere with moral, ethical and devotional values together with elderly respect so that children gets acquainted to similar values and preserve and follow them through out their life. Such children enrich the way of life of their society. Contrary to this if parents are immoral and quarrelsome children acquire similar tendencies and create h**l in their living and also cause a big burden to their society. Also few among them develop violent mind-set up in the society. It is fully agreed to by all learned that the violent propensities of a deceased mind can be sublimated with systematic and scientific approach through Yoga.

now coming to cemima violence: Yes, beyond any doubt. in cenimas the director and producer are so nicely engrave with new and perfect methods even school going children are also infected after seeing that. Recently I sent the same article to a New York based agency. IT  IS  GOOD QUESTION. i REQUEST YAHOO TO RECOGNISE THIS QUESTION.

Answer 8

I think this falls into the same conundrum of those in the early /mid 80's assumptions that heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Motley Crue had subliminal messages from Satan himself hidden in the lyrics, which were found to be ludicrous. Anyone who believes that the amount of violence in society is linked to movies and video games is forgetting the fact that man's aggressive side is a primal instinct. Generational gapping has decreased it, but it is still there. I feel that economic and cultural stimuli have a greater affect than any movie or video game. Just because I love to shoot Aliens/Opponents on Halo3, or watch movies about torturous kidnappings or murders doesn't even come close to making me want to commit such acts in real life! But ask a crackhead what they would do to someone who stole their stash!!!!

Answer 9

I don't believe so.  I do believe that the increase in children committing violent crimes is due to the lack of responsibility that seems to have gripped our society for the past 2 decades.  The old " yeah I did it but I am not responsible" c**p is really p*ssing me off.  If you do the crime, man or woman up and do the time.

Answer 10

We have to remember that on-screen violence takes many different forms.  Cartoons have always featured a fair amount of violence, as did live action comedies like the Three Stooges.  I think people understand that certain kinds of behaviour are unrealistic and for entertainment purposes only.

   I think today's issue is based in the forms of violence that are portrayed and the way that they are shown.  In the past, gangsters and killers were always portrayed as bad, and the depictions of their actions were mild.  These days we walk the line between depicting gangsters and killers in a "true to life" style, and creating "anti-heroes" that trigger sympathetic emotions.  

   Rather than worrying about censorship, I think we can solve the problem by instituting much tougher penalties on those who cross the line between on-screen fantasy and real life.  As bad as things are in prison right now, I still think we're too light on crime.

Answer 11

Yes, if you are constantly being exposed to images of violence, carnage & death, whether it is real or not, of course it's going to affect your mind. How can it not? That's one of the problems with society today. If you sit a youngster down in front of the t.v. for hours on end & show them graphic images of violence over & over, it WILL make them more outwardly aggressive, or "de-sensitized" to what they are seeing. It is up to the parents to limit the amount of time kids are exposed to these things, & to explain to them the difference between a video game & reality. Kids are very observant, & tend to mimick or act out what they see. So parents, get involved.

Answer 12

Maybe but we no longer hang, draw and quarter people and take a picnic and our children to watch.