Serious Youth Violence & Long-term Use of Violent Media

这项研究的首要目标是促进我们对暴力媒体的接触和参与与儿童、青少年和成年期严重的攻击性、暴力和犯罪行为之间的关系的理解。具体来说，我们将在以下人群中探讨先前接触媒体暴力对随后的严重攻击和暴力行为的作用：居住在县和州设施中的被监禁的少年犯；参加县日间治疗和转移治疗项目的少年犯；在社会经济弱势社区上学的学龄前和幼儿园学生；在同样处境不利的社区就读的高中毕业生；被关押在州监狱的暴力和非暴力成年罪犯；有两组人参加了长期前瞻性纵向研究从他们童年中期开始一直持续到成年中期。本研究将针对以下几个具体目标：1)首先，我们将研究青少年犯罪和青年犯罪人群中严重暴力和犯罪行为之间的关系，以及他们同时和先前接触暴力媒体的情况。2)其次，我们将调查高危青少年群体的暴力和潜在犯罪行为与他们同时和先前接触暴力媒体之间的关系。(3)第三，利用已有的两组纵向数据，对成年早期和中期的长期预测进行研究

The overarching goal of the proposed research is to advance our understanding of how exposure to and engagement in violent media relates to severe aggressive, violent, and criminal behavior in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Specifically, we will explore the role of prior exposure to media violence on subsequent serious aggressive and violent behavior in the following populations: Incarcerated juvenile delinquents residing in county and state facilities; juvenile delinquents enrolled in county day treatment and diversion programs; preschool and kindergarten students attending schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities; high school seniors attending schools in similarly disadvantaged communities; incarcerated violent and nonviolent adult offenders residing in a state penitentiary; and two normative groups of individuals enrolled in long-term prospective longitudinal studies that began when the individuals were in middle childhood and since have continued into middle adulthood. The proposed investigation will target several specific aims: 1) First, we will examine the association between serious violent and criminal behavior in adolescent delinquent and young adult criminal populations and their concurrent and prior exposure to violent media. 2) Second, we will investigate the association between violent and potentially criminal behavior in at-risk youth populations and their concurrent and prior exposure to violent media. 3) Third, using two existing longitudinal data sets, we will study the long-term prediction of early and middle adulthood violent and criminal behavior from childhood exposure to violent media. 4) Fourth, within each of our samples, we will analyze the individual, contextual, viewing, and programming factors likely to moderate the strength of the relation between exposure to media violence and serious violent behavior. 5) Finally, we will investigate the over-time mediation of aggressive and violent behavior by social-cognitive factors linked to exposure to violent media. The results of this investigation will contribute critical information to our understanding of the relation between childhood, adolescent, and adult media violence exposure and concurrent and subsequent serious aggression, violence, antisocial and criminal behaviors.