How Does Tv Violence Affect Society

Almost all Americans in today 's society see television violence every night. They may not be aware of it, but they all see it. Part of the reason why they don’t realize this is because they are desensitized from the violence. Even their children see the violence that is aimed towards adults. Violence on television has created a debate on whether it impacts people 's actions and personality, especially in younger kids and what can be done about it.
The target audience of television violence can be more surprising than most think. The targeted audiences of most television violence are for people of the ages 18-34 (Hamilton). Even though this kind of content is aimed towards adults, they are not the only ones who are seeing it. The impacted group would be young kids. Around ⅓ of kids see …show more content…
One example of extreme violence was the scream murder. In this case a model Belgian citizen stabbed a 15 year old girl to death. This was the murder of a 15 year old girl by a model 24 year old Belgian citizen. The man attacked the girl in a costume like the character from the movie Scream he proceeded to stab the girl 30 times with a knife. All this based off the movie Scream (Lavers). Thus it is a perfect example of the violence on TV directly impacting someone and their actions for the worst. There has also been many serial killings that are thought to be directly related to the violence seen on television. It has been found that the murders have been committing the same murders as they have seen on shows and movies (Lavers). It is also believed that serial killing has been fueled by sex and torture seen on television shows. These are linked to many murders (Lavers). Some of the shows representing this kind of actions would be Criminal Minds and Stalker both on CBS (Poniewozik). Those were just some of the real world examples of violence being direct motives in