cher and if children are always viewing their favorite characters using violence or aggression to get what they want, they will do the same. Children are sponges and someone simply needs to walk through a preschool playground to see children imitating their favorite super hero to believe it. (Ledingham) Television tends to create heroes out of the people who commit crimes, and children feel that if they copy the criminal they too will be a hero. "There is nothing heroic about violence and it is wrong to show kids that it is." (Dix) Children begin to think of criminals as powerful role models, not as the chaotic characters they really are. A study by the University of Texas, University of North Carolina, and University of California at Santa Barbara made some frightening discoveries about the way violence is presented. According to the study forty-seven percent of the violent acts shown resulted in no apparent harm to the victim, only sixteen percent of violent shows contained a message about the long term negative repercussions of violen
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