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The United States Federal Trade Commission Inquiry - (April 2001).

Right click on link to download 6mth follow-up Report (70pages - 170Kb)

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Following release of the United States Federal Trade Commission report (Sept 2000) examining aggressive target marketing violent R-rated entertainment to children, the FTC has released a 6 month follow-up report.

• The Federal Trade Commission has monitored industry compliance with the movie,music & electronic game industry commitments to adhere to recommendations of the original Sept 2000 report.

• Substantial commitment & compliance were recorded by the Movie and Electronic Games industries.

• The music industry pledged commitment to report recommendations two days before Public release of the Sept 2000 report. However, a short while after the release, the music industry withdrew from all commitments, citing it had been targeted by several states for prosecution. The music industry still continues to aggressively target market violent R-rated material to children.

• The US Senate Commerce Committee has therefore responded, by calling for a second FTC follow-up report by October 2001. This report will include information on specific industry members, and both their level and reasons for non-compliance.

To be continued......stay tuned.

The United States Federal Trade Commission Inquiry

(September 2000).

Right click link to download Movie/Music/Game Industry Report (104 pages - 460Kb)

Download above Acrobat Reader to view the Portable Document Format (.pdf) file above.

• "Remarkable" Sept 2000 Report on the U.S. Federal Review of Self Regulation of the Motion Picture, Music & Electronic Game Industries. Marketing of Violent Entertainment to children as young as six years of age and actual testing by the Motion Picture Industry of "rough cut" pre-release 'R' rated violent movies on audiences of children of 10 years of age. It also includes specific targeting methods of violent material to High Schools. A Platinum plated Goldmine of endnote reference hyperlinks and current Scientific research into media violence effects. It also includes references to pleas to the Motion Picture Industry by 2 Former U.S. Presidents and retired U.S. General H. Norman Schwartzkopf, U.S. Senators, University Professors & Psychiatrists.

• Of particular interest, the U.S. Centre for Disease Control & Prevention has just recently found the U.S. teen homicide rate is currently 5 times greater than the total combined rate of 25 other Industrialised Countries!!

• This report noted the Motion Picture Industry recently released violent movies on Home Video without any description or Classification rating.........Anti-Trust?

1988 Study of Violence on Australian Television

Right click on link to download 1988 Study Report Summary (Word '97 - 730Kb).

• 1988 Historical Survey of Views and Viewing Habits of 1300 Primary School Students from Perth (Western Australia). Collated from 1313 Student responses to 21 wide ranging questions about TV. Topics ranged from "effects of viewing Violent programs", "source of worst kind of violence", "most liked & disliked cartoons" to "The number of TV's in the home".

• Some effects......12% of Students reported suffered significant nightmares from simply watching TV.
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Charles Sturt University of Queensland

http://www.csu.edu.au/ For Police document searches Pick 'Search' at bottom left of main page then, pick 'CSU Public Server' then 'Local Search', then type your search terms in the dialogue box, (i.e. 'film & crime' or 'media & crime' or 'media & policing' etc).

• Queensland Police Union Journal Article.....Can Media influence the commitment of Crime? Summary of Theories and research in Australia up to 1993. (Page 1) (Page 2) (Page 3).

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/social/biblioe.htm

• Selected Articles,books and Academic studies (1972-99) on TV Violence and aggressive behavior.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/INFO_SHT/TV1E.HTM

• Chronology and events/Policy Initiatives (1992-1999) on TV Violence following the Montreal Polytechnique shootings in 1990 and Petition to the Canadian Government of 1.5 million signatures calling for a ban on Television Violence. Includes initiatives & references to the introduction of V-chip technology.

From the April '99 Conference on the Developing Child & the Media.

http://mediastandards.org/mimi.html

• Disturbing changes in children’s play behaviour today by Mimi Wellisch, Director of a NSW Preschool in Dorrigo echoeing similar studies by U.S. Professor Dianne Levin on the effects of TV Violence on young pre-school children.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

http://www.aacap.org/factsfam/index.htm

Facts for Families see reports such as:-

• Children and T.V. Violence #13.

• Children and Watching T.V. #54.

• The Influence of Music and Rock Videos #40.

American Academy of Paediatrics

http://www.aap.org/advocacy/childhealthmonth/media.htm

• Some things you should know about Media Violence and Media Literacy.

Royal Australasian College of Physicians -

(Division of Paediatrics).

http://www.racp.edu.au/open/divpaed.htm

• Some News from an Australian point of view plus a Pediatric Email Interest Group.

The Effects of Media Violence on Children

http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/ (Excellent Home site....)

http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/resource/famvlnc.htm (Article below..)

• Does T.V. teach children to be violent ?
• How children understand television.
• How violence affects children.
• The role of parents.
• What parents can do.
• Suggested reading.
• References.

The Australian Federation for the Family

http://www.powerup.com.au/~asdesign

• See the Research Resources section "Violence in the Media" and draft submission to the Office and Film and Literature Classification entitled "Suffer Little Children".

See what the kids say in the United States.

http://uskidstv.fcac.org/read.html

• "Let’s Stop the Violence"

Snap ( T.V. Violence)

http://www.snap.com/search/directory/results/1,61,home-0,00.html?keyword=%2Btv+%2Bviolence

• Web Site search engine results.

The Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse

http://www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/jjclearinghouse/jj10.html

Media Violence and examples of the many articles are :-

• Tips for parents to stop media violence.
• Facts about media violence.
• Video Game violence.
• Violence and Television.
• Violence and the Mass Media.

Parent Smart

http://www.parentsmart.com/HealthSafety/Violence/

Academic excellence award winning website for education merit. ParentSmarts list of articles/strategies by educators to reduce the effects of collateral damage.......increasing school violence.

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