A Topic Proposal
Presented to the
Faculty of the College of Criminal Justice Education
De La Salle University – Dasmarinas
City of Dasmarinas, Cavite
In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Degree,
Bachelor of Science in Criminology
By:
Harold T. Sarita
Abdul Hakim A. Botig
Hanz Kriztien M.Guzman
July 23, 2013
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
Our society today afflicted with many problems that young people are becoming juvenile delinquent. The term juvenile delinquency is a participation in illegal behaviour by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit and delinquency is often defined more narrowly in terms of a young person breaking the law. We will examine that delinquency and violent behaviour of a young person influence by playing of computer games, many young people nowadays expose to rapid increasing of violent computer games that leads them to addiction, emotional unstable, and lack of social interaction.
This idea came from the theory of social learning theory according to Albert Bandura that juveniles learn their behaviours from others with whom they interact in their social environment. Juvenile delinquency and violence may be learned from direct, face to face interaction or through observation of other person. Children learn their behaviours both positive and negative through imitating behaviour they observe in others. So it is possible that computer game affects the behaviour of a young person through imitating the characters that does her/him playing. For example a young person learned to shoot a gun by imitating the character that she/he saw on the computer games he played. Research showed that the exposure to the computer games produce changes to the people’s attitude and behaviour, this is an important effect to the attitude change and that could be the effect of aggressive behaviour.
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