Workshop on Youth Violence

青少年暴力研讨会

• 批准号: 1322155
• 负责人: Brad Bushman
• 金额: $ 4.13万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322155&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Youth; Violence

"This is our first task - caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged."- President Barack Obama at the prayer vigil in Newtown, December 16, 2012On December 14th, 2012 Adam Lanza, age 20, first killed his mother in their home, and then went to an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and began shooting, killing 20 children and 6 school employees, and injuring 2 other school employees before killing himself. Lanza joins a small, but growing list of rampage shooters who have attacked schools, movie theaters, shopping malls, and other public venues. Despite the rarity of these events, the scale of the loss when it happens is so devastating and apparently random, that the public and the nation's legislators are seeking answers to questions about causes and potential prevention measures. When rampage shootings occur, people want to know "the" cause. But violent criminal behavior is very complex and is determined by multiple factors. The Administration and Congress are responding with proposals for designed to speak to the need for change. President Obama has asked Vice President Biden to coordinate federal efforts and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has introduced legislation for a National Academies study on the impact of violent video imagery on children. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va), who has sponsored past research efforts on this matter, has asked the National Science Foundation (NSF) to find out what researchers know and don't know about the connection between exposure to media violence and youth violence and other factors that contribute to these devastating events. Professor Brad Bushman - an expert on exposure to violent media - and Dean Katherine Newman - an expert in rampage shooting - have called upon a committee of nine other participants with relevant expertise (e.g., communication, law, sociology, computer science, adolescent development, natural language analysis, gun policy, data analysis) to address this urgent and important topic. We will also identify gaps in the scientific literature by identifying what we have yet to learn, but can learn, from social science research.

“这是我们的首要任务——照顾好我们的孩子。这是我们的第一份工作。如果我们做不到这一点，我们就什么都做不好。作为一个社会，我们将受到评判。2012年12月14日，20岁的亚当·兰扎（Adam Lanza）首先在家中杀死了他的母亲，然后进入康涅狄格州纽敦市的一所小学开始射击，杀死了20名儿童和6名学校员工，打伤了另外两名学校员工，然后自杀。兰扎加入了袭击学校、电影院、购物中心和其他公共场所的疯狂枪手的行列，这些枪手人数不多，但数量在不断增加。尽管这些事件很罕见，但当它们发生时，损失的规模是如此具有破坏性，而且显然是随机的，以至于公众和国家的立法者都在寻求有关原因和潜在预防措施的问题的答案。当横冲直撞的枪击事件发生时，人们想知道“原因”。但是暴力犯罪行为是非常复杂的，是由多种因素决定的。政府和国会正在提出旨在说明改革必要性的提案。奥巴马总统已要求副总统拜登协调联邦政府的努力，参议员杰伊·洛克菲勒（西弗吉尼亚州民主党人）已提出立法，要求国家科学院研究暴力视频图像对儿童的影响。共和党众议员弗兰克•沃尔夫（Frank Wolf, R-Va）曾资助过有关这一问题的研究工作，他已要求美国国家科学基金会（NSF）查明研究人员对媒体暴力与青少年暴力之间的联系了解多少，不了解多少，以及导致这些毁灭性事件的其他因素。Brad Bushman教授——研究暴力媒体的专家——和Katherine Newman院长——研究枪击事件的专家——已经召集了一个由其他九名具有相关专业知识（如通信、法律、社会学、计算机科学、青少年发展、自然语言分析、枪支政策、数据分析）的参与者组成的委员会来解决这个紧迫而重要的问题。我们还将通过确定我们尚未从社会科学研究中学习但可以学习的内容来确定科学文献中的空白。