... emerged shortly after broadcasting began in 1946 (Craig A. Anderson and Brad J. Bushman). First, we must define the "negative effects" of children's behaviour. "In 1991, children under the age of ten committed more than 1000 acts of aggravated assault and 81 cases of forcible rape. Juveniles 12 and under committed.....murder, robbery, larceny-theft, and forcible rape" (Bennett, 2001). Generally, we can all assume that the aforementioned crimes are wrong, but the fact that they were committed by children, shows a fault in society. It is hard to believe that simply viewing a movie could be so detrimental to children. But there is indeed evidence of specific re-enactments of actions in movies. Evidence "...comes in configuration of corpses, mutilated by disturbed teenagers to resemble victims in slasher movies....." (Bender & Leone, 1995). If movies are so bad for children, wouldn't it be easy to just not allow children to see "violent" movies? ...

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