20 Jan 2004 Issue Page 55 to 60

Special Report
By Jo Cavallo
Do Video Games Encourage Violence?

Copyright 2004 by Family Circle Magazine

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE
2 Nov 2002 Dustin Lynch arrested for the murder of Mickey Mishne age17. She was beat to death with the bed post from her bed. That was Dustin's favorite way to kill people in the game Grand Theft Auto III.

Because of the research of David Walsh, Ph.D., president of the National institute on Media and the Family in Minneapolis, there is a group now preparing to sue the maker of the game trying to prove that there is a direct link between the murder and playing the game.

Article quotes Army Lieuteenant Colonel Dave Grossman, director of Killology Research Group, an Arkansas-based company that studies the cause and effect of violent behavior as saying the Army uses these games to train soldiers to have a "conditioned reflex to kill"

Article shows many studies that have been done now linking TV and Video Game violence to anger and agressivness in children.

WalMart, KMart and Target all now have policies now to NOT sell violent M-rated (Mature) games to teens under 17.

(see article for full details)


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