Juvenile Justice

Violent television, are pervasive and children are susceptible to effects, parents are the best mediators of their children viewing. Many children imitate what they see on television at toddler age and start to regulate the behavior. Television, violence does not account for all the causes of children aggression, but some children can be affected by violence, then other children are more likely to be potentially aggressive. The effects of media violence lead children to become more aggressive and in so many ways does have an effect on children. Violent programs are certain to affect several kids' thoughts of what life is like, and may also cause them to take on some outrageous yet bad verbal and physical behaviors. These will surely influence the way the mature world acts toward them: tough-talking and touch-acting little kids are likely to be treated less kindly. (The Plug In Drug: television, computers, and family life Winn, Marie.)

Researchers conducted a study to explore excessive viewing of television (TV) that has been linked to aggressive behavior, violence and childhood obesity. Studies have estimated that children and adolescents watch television for twenty-eight hours a week. (Media Violence: Dudley, William). It has also proven that those who watched the most TV and movies in childhood were much more likely to get arrested for, or convicted of, violent felonies later on in life. Therefore, TV programs should be decided carefully for babies, preschool age children, along with school age children, and also teenager.

Children were divided into three groups, according to their age's preschool children (3-6), primary schoolchildren (7-11) and teenagers (13-17). Television viewing time was given daily, as a mean of weekday. 62% of children watch an average of 2 hours of television each day, and 8.3% of teenagers watch over 4 hours of TV a day. On the daily children will witness 8,000 murders by the time he or she finishes elementary school. The overall viewing of too much TV can distract children from their homework, make the children a passive learner, teaches stereotypes, and provide violent models of aggression. (Factors that affect television viewing time in preschool and primary schoolchildren: Siddika Songül Yalçin, Belma Turul, Nazire Naçar, Murat Tuncer, and Kadriye Yurdakök.)

Not all television programs have a negative influence on children, some programs present motivating educational programs, it can teach children about positive prosaically behaviors, and also increase information about different things so they may become more knowledgeable about the world. But this essay is more focus on the amount of time of TV that children watch a day, which can have negative factors on the children's. (The problem of Media Violence is Exaggerated (Henry Jenkins 2007)

The children in the primary group had more TV sets in their homes than the preschool children. Approximately 59.9% of children in the preschool group and 82.8% in the primary school and teenager group had at least two TV sets in their homes. When male and female children were analyzed separately, female children in preschool group spent more time watching TV than primary school group. In primary school group, the mean time spend watching TV was more in male children than female children, whereas there was no sex difference in the preschool group. Overall, 185 parents (57.3%) observed unwanted behaviors of children due to TV programs. Among all negatively affected children, the time spent watching TV was longer in preschool group than in primary school group and the teenager group. (Factors that affect television viewing time in preschool and primary schoolchildren: Siddika Songül Yalçin, Belma Turul, Nazire Naçar, Murat Tuncer, and Kadriye Yurdakök.)

Children who view shows, in which violence is very realistic, frequently repeated or left unpunished, are more likely to imitate what they see. The children who imitated what they had seen on TV were more common in the preschool group than the primary school group. In the preschool group, the children who imitated TV characters spent more time watching TV than children who did not. The parents indicated that TV programs included violence, exposure to child abuse, emotional abuse, and also sexual abuse, and the children were being influence by the negative behavior that they were viewing. (Violence in the Media: Torr, James D.,)

Television has become an essential part of children's daily lifestyle, but in this research I found that television is accepted as a cause but also a solution of many serious childhood problems. The influence of