Haroon S Violent Movies and Criminal Behavior of Delinquents

Violence, aggression, or delinquency has been a major concern for almost every society, whether it’s medieval one or modern. Researchers, throughout the history, have given special attention to understand its causes and effects. With the passage of time and with the advent of modern technology this concern has caused great apprehensions. So far as, a plethora of research have been done in the field of media and their effects on individuals. This study focuses on the exposure of violent movies and their effects on juveniles. The media effects studies have great attraction for the scholars of social sciences. Western governments in general and the USA in particular, arranged several discussions and formulated some commissions that not only tried to address this issue and approved some recommendations. This issue has been paid less attention in developing countries like Pakistan. This study tried to explore the effects of violent movies on Pakistani teenagers and then to find out a correlation between exposure to such movies with criminal tendencies. Nevertheless, consistent published studies have reviewed media effects with various outcomes; this study carries empirical evidence that establishes this fact that violent media causes delinquency especially in Pakistani juvenile