Panzer
April 17th, 2008, 05:20 PM
A 7yr old study and funding that amounts to about one and a half million dollars, has lead to this. Grand theft childhood (http://www.grandtheftchildhood.com/GTC/Home.html)
It basically shows how violent video games do not cause any long term effects on a child or teen but just has some short term effects just how seeing a "jet lee movie' a teen and his buddies walk out hitting each other but they aren't going to go home and become masters of tae-kwon-do.
over the years Gameplay has increased and crimes by teens have reduced near plumted.
It also talks about how kids who don't play video games are at a higher risk to commit crimes than one who does play video games. This came into effect with virgina tech when they blamed the crime on video games. but the roommates said that he didn't play any games and the games were theres.
you can read all about it on the website listed above.
some info on the authors
Larry Kutner is the author of five previous books about child psychology and parent-child communication. He wrote the award-winning weekly New York Times “Parent & Child” column, was the “Ask the Expert” columnist for Parents magazine, and has been a columnist and contributing editor at Parenting and Baby Talk magazines. He’s a licensed psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, which awarded him its National Psychology Award for the best newspaper writing about psychology in the United States.
Cheryl K. Olson is a public health researcher and practitioner. She’s a former teen issues columnist for Parents magazine, and was the Principal Investigator of the first federally funded, large-scale research project to take an in-depth look at the effects of electronic games on preteens and teenagers. She has served as a health behavior consultant to a number of non-profit organizations and corporations, as well as to government health agencies in the United States and in Europe. She is also an award-winning video producer and writer.
They have been married for 20 years, and have a teenage son who plays video games.
It basically shows how violent video games do not cause any long term effects on a child or teen but just has some short term effects just how seeing a "jet lee movie' a teen and his buddies walk out hitting each other but they aren't going to go home and become masters of tae-kwon-do.
over the years Gameplay has increased and crimes by teens have reduced near plumted.
It also talks about how kids who don't play video games are at a higher risk to commit crimes than one who does play video games. This came into effect with virgina tech when they blamed the crime on video games. but the roommates said that he didn't play any games and the games were theres.
you can read all about it on the website listed above.
some info on the authors
Larry Kutner is the author of five previous books about child psychology and parent-child communication. He wrote the award-winning weekly New York Times “Parent & Child” column, was the “Ask the Expert” columnist for Parents magazine, and has been a columnist and contributing editor at Parenting and Baby Talk magazines. He’s a licensed psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, which awarded him its National Psychology Award for the best newspaper writing about psychology in the United States.
Cheryl K. Olson is a public health researcher and practitioner. She’s a former teen issues columnist for Parents magazine, and was the Principal Investigator of the first federally funded, large-scale research project to take an in-depth look at the effects of electronic games on preteens and teenagers. She has served as a health behavior consultant to a number of non-profit organizations and corporations, as well as to government health agencies in the United States and in Europe. She is also an award-winning video producer and writer.
They have been married for 20 years, and have a teenage son who plays video games.