The Correlation between Increa

creasing televised and real-world violence has caused endless contentious debates between scholars, parents, students, and government officials alike. In this long-lasting controversy, the central argument has still revolved around the effects that films and television have on every human being. Therefore, people who are striving to find the reason for this debate that has so long been torturing them have divided into two groups. There are the ones who would agree that the increase of televised social deviance promotes the increase of destructive behaviour in the real life. On the other hand, there are those who would disagree with that argument, claiming that violent media is simply a reflection of what is already occurring in every society (Callahan par. 5). Since no one and nothing can settle a dispute between each of the sides, television and films as before continue on spreading examples of immoral behaviour among its viewers.
             So, does a linkage between the increasing level of aggression and violence on the screen and in the real life truly exist? Is it really fair to put the blame for the whole nowadays' human burden on their creations rather on themselves? The only thing that is clear is that if it definitely were not true, then there would not be any cause for arranging more than three thousand experiments for proving it (Molloy par. 4). Despite the results of most held experiments, each of them has taken a certain important role in the further sequence of investigations and findings. Just of such a very special value became the studies under the supervision of Seattle psychiatrist Brandon Centerwall in 1989, which actually pushed him to make a conclusion of such content:
             "If hypothetically, television technology had never been developed; there would today be ten thousand fewer homicides each year in the USA, seventy thousand fewer rapes and seven hundred thousand fewer injurious assaul
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