MASS MEDIA AND VIOLENCE

• NCJ Number: 771
• Author(s): D C LANGE; R K BAKER
• Date Published: 1969
• Length: 614 pages
• Corporate Author: National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence
• Sale Source: Superintendent of Documents, GPO; National Institute of Justice/
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY MASS MEDIA EMPHASIZING THE EFFECTS OF THEIR OPERATING PRACTICES UPON THE PRECIPITATION OF VIOLENCE.

Abstract

QUESTIONS EXPLORED INCLUDE SUCH ISSUES AS WHETHER CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM OF THE PRESS SANCTIONS INDISCRIMINATE BROADCASTING OF VIOLENCE, WHETHER NEWS MEDIA ACT AS A DIVISIVE FORCE IN THE COUNTRY, AND WHETHER THERE IS A CAUSAL RELATION BETWEEN VIOLENCE IN MEDIA AND VIOLENCE IN SOCIETY.