ty exists between characters. Violence can occur without involving violation. Much professional sport involves considerable violence, but at least when the rules are obeyed, little violation.This distinction is important because it is violence that clouds an impressionable mind, not violation. This is so because a violation would have a somewhat reasonable cause, while violence is reckless and chaotic in its nature. According to E.F Dubow and L.S Miller, authors of Television Violence and Aggressive Behavior: Social Science Perspectives on Television, Ignoring consequences of violence (including the pain of victims, the victims families, and the families of perpetrators) or depicting the consequences unreasonably sets in motion a destructive encoding process. There could be found a direct correlation between aggressive behavior and violence witnessed on television. The more violence watched, the more desensitized a viewer would become. Dubow and Miller further state viewers become [fearful] and begin to identify with the aggressors and the aggressors solutions to various problems. It is this identification that causes violent behaviors to become encoded in the persons mind when exposed to repeated violent acts. The person may then come to see the world as a bleak and sinister place. Along with this negative outlook on life comes the likelihood of the acting out the violent acts in order to solve ones own personal situations. As child psychologist Dr. Stephen Garber states from an interview done for CNN news, there is so muchrealistic-type violence portrayed in movies and in other situations that does affect certain kinds of kids who cant tell the difference between reality and fantasy.Just looking at youth studies on violence and television, research does show there is a relationship between the two. By the time an average child leaves elementary school, he or she approximately will witness 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence wi...
