Serious Youth Violence & Long-term Use of Violent Media

拟议研究的总体目标是促进我们对接触和参与暴力媒体如何与儿童，青少年和成年期的严重攻击性，暴力和犯罪行为相关的理解。具体来说，我们将探讨以下人群中先前暴露于媒体暴力对随后严重的攻击性和暴力行为的作用：居住在县和州设施中的被监禁的少年犯;参加县日间治疗和分流计划的少年犯;在社会经济弱势社区上学的学龄前和幼儿园学生;在类似弱势社区上学的高中毕业生;被监禁的暴力和非暴力的成年罪犯居住在国家监狱;和两个规范组的个人参加了长期的前瞻性纵向研究，开始时，个人在童年中期，因为一直持续到中年。拟议的调查将针对几个具体目标：1）首先，我们将研究青少年犯罪和年轻成年犯罪人口中严重暴力和犯罪行为与他们同时和先前接触暴力媒体之间的关联。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联。3)第三，利用现有的两个纵向数据集，我们将研究成年早期和中期的长期预测 暴力和犯罪行为从童年暴露于暴力媒体。4)第四，在我们的每一个样本中，我们将分析个人，背景，观看和编程因素可能会缓和暴露于媒体暴力和严重暴力行为之间的关系的强度。5)最后，我们将调查与接触暴力媒体有关的社会认知因素对攻击性和暴力行为的长期调节作用。这项调查的结果将有助于我们了解儿童，青少年和成人媒体暴力暴露与并发和随后的严重侵略，暴力，反社会和犯罪行为之间的关系的关键信息。

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.