Gender Stereotypes Of Teen Violence And Electronic Media Violence

1Schaeffer (1999) pointed out that violence in television, movies, and music played a part in the violence in schools as did out of control youth, drug abuse, gangs, video games, the Internet, and other problems in society. However, the commonality of the perpetrators of violence has been their alienation from their parents and society (Schaeffer). Hutcheon (1999) condemned the electronic media for socializing children into violence and a premature, perverted, and abusive sexuality. He also stated that harassing and violent behavior toward girls was being reported as early as the second grade, that boys in sex-education programs frequently named O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson as their idols, and that the seriousness of violent acts by youths was