Critically consider the view that the media might contribute to the development of aggressive behaviour
            
            
             There has been an interest in the affects of violent media on the behaviour of children by psychologists. In 1993, Michael Medved published a book called 'Hollywood versus America' which triggered an increase in research. The book is about the film industry's 'obsession' with violence. Some actors then turned against violent movies and publicly showed their disgust of it. One of these was Sir Anthony Hopkins who won an oscar for playing the insane serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the film 'The Silence of the Lambs.' He told journalists in Cardiff, "Enough is enough. As an actor, I have some responsibility. We have seen some terrible things in Britain recently. It's a terrifying world we live in and I don't want to encourage that through my films."
            
             In experiments, children have copied violent acts that they have seen on TV. For example, in the 1960's a psychologist called Albert Bandura showed a video clip of someone acting aggressively to a bobo doll to some toddlers, and then put them in a room with a bobo doll. Some children were not exposed to the video clip, but the ones that were, acted more aggressively towards the bobo doll, than the ones that were not.
             This clearly shows that children imitate what they see on TV.
            
             In 1993, two ten-year-old boys abducted a two-year-old called James Bulger. They tortured the toddler, and then eventually killed him. They were quickly caught because of the extensive CCTV footage they were caught on. The young murderers were found to of watched a violent film called 'Child's Play 3' which is about a toy that attacks people and contains some gory scenes of violence. When sentencing the boys, the judge, Mr Justice Moorland made the following statement: "It is not for me to pass judgement on the...