Effect on the Youth

This effect is also present within America’s youth, who statistically is more likely to commit crimes that they have seen through media outlets. According to Glenn Muschert, “the relationship between the viewer and the screen is complex and active: it depends on the personal experience and education of the viewer, and in addition media violence is hard to define and measure. Yet there is a general finding that children who consume high levels of media violence are more likely to be aggressive in the real world: heavy exposure to televised violence is one of the causes of aggressive behavior, crime, and violence in society.”