The effects of Television Violence on Children

Television violence is a topic which has been extensively studied by many researchers hoping to get many different kinds of results. There are many issues within this one problem. People are confused as to what exactly constitutes violence, how one can prove causality for violent behavior, and, most importantly, what to do to improve the problem. This paper will explore the state of the current research surrounding this issue and provide a brief summation of the present theories.
The first problem that one encounters is classifying what exactly constitutes violence. Are there some forms of acceptable violence? Are some behaviors more violent than others? Which ones? Mustonen and Pulkkinen discussed the difficulty of conceiving a concrete definition of violent behavior. They decided that the most universally acceptable definition would be “actions causing harm to oneself, or to another person, either physically, or psychologically, including implicit threats, nonverbal behavior...