Adolescents, Crime, and the Media: A Critical Analysis

by Christopher J. Ferguson

Book Overview

A campus shooting. A gang assault. A school bus ambush. With each successive event, fingers are pointed at the usual suspects: violent films, bloody video games, explicit web sites. But to what extent can-or should-the media be implicated in youth crime? And are today's sophisticated young people really that susceptible to their influence?

Adolescents, Crime, and the Media critically examines perceptions of these phenomena through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461467403
• ISBN13: 9781461467403
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"