Whether video game play affects social behavior is a topic of debate. Many argue that
aggression and hel** are affected by video game play, whereas this stance is disputed by …

Violence in digital games has been a source of controversy in the scientific community and
general public. Over two decades of research have examined this issue. However, much of …

In the past twenty years, the video game industry has established itself as a significant
contributor to the global entertainment economy. Compared to more established …

This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught
in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year …

Character-based video games do more than allow one to practice various kinds of behaviors
in a virtual environment; they allow one to practice being a different kind of person. As such …

Prior research suggests that playing videogames can have a voluntary incapacitating effect
on criminal behaviour. The current study investigates whether this negative association …

230 Media Violence and Children had increased to 4.5 hours per week for fourth grade girls
and to 7.1 hours per week for fourth grade boys (Buchman & Funk, 1996). By the turn of the …

Video games with violent content have raised considerable concern in popular media and
within academia. Recently, there has been considerable attention regarding the claim of the …

A growing number of researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers from criminology and
criminal justice, social work, medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and other health science …

The pervasiveness of video gaming among adolescents today suggests a need to
understand how gaming affects identity formation. We interviewed 20 adolescents about …