venile crime has been rising!
             steadily since 1976 "the incidence of violence appears to have peaked or at least plateaued around 1980, and then to have subsided or at least leveled off until the mid-1980s. Since the mid-1980s, however, the incidence of violence has risen", "Over the past decade, the rate of homicide committed teenagers, ages 14-17, has more than doubled, increasing 172%, from 7.0 per 100,000 in 1985 to 19.1 in 1994." (www.usdoj.gov), while studies by the FTC indicate that various media sources such as motion picture companies, record companies, etc. have not only made very little effort to restrict violent content to youths but have directly increased efforts to market towards them over the years. Key findings of this report include:
             · Of the 44 movies rated R for violence selected for the study, the Federal Trade Commission found that 35 of them -- or 80 percent -- were targeted to children under 17.
             · Marketing plans for 28 of those 44 movies -- or 64 percent -- contained express statements that the films' target audience included children under 17.
             · Fifty-five music recordings with labels warning of explicit lyrics were selected for review; the FTC found that all were targeted to children under 17
             · Of the 118 electronic games with a "mature" rating for violence selected by the FTC for its study, 83 of them -- or 70 percent -- targeted children under 17.
             As the above results indicate as incidents of juvenile violence have increased so have marketing trends that seek to expose more children to violent content.
             On a more scientific note, actual psychological research has shown that youths that have been exposed to violent content tend to exhibit, at least,
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