Annotated Bibliography: Mind Abuse Violent media, especially TV shows and video games at a young age, can cause children to become more aggressive and violent as they get older because they tend to recall what they see Agarwal, Vivek and Saranya Dhanasekaran. “Harmful Effects of the Media on Children and Adolescents.” Journal of India Association for Children and Adolescents Mental Health 8.2 (2012): 38-45. Ebsco. Network. April 2, 2014. Vivek Agarwal and Saranya Dhanasekaran discuss how there are many children who spend a lot of time on the Internet, watching television, watching movies, and playing video games, and what dangerous effects media can have on young children. Agarwal and Dhanasekaren explain how violence in the media makes it seem like a way to resolve conflicts because it is efficient and has no consequences in the TV show. Children soon learn to have aggressive attitudes and become desensitized to violence. Agarwal and Dhanasekaren gain credibility by using poll results, as well as not being biased and seeing it from both sides. I would use this article to show how violence in television shows changes a child and makes them think differently/negatively. I could go into detail about how the more the child is exposed to violent media the more likely they are to become violent. Bartholow, Bruce and Craig Anderson. “Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior: potential sex differences.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 38.3 (2002): 283-290 Science Direct. Network. April 1, 2014. Experimental and correlational research conducted by Bruce Bartholow and Craig Anderson generally suggests that exposure to media violence is related to increases in aggressive and aggression-related behavior... half of article... Savage attempts to answer why this is the case by discussing the relationship between exposure to television and film violence and violent behavior in the context of the empirical and theoretical literature on violent crime. Critiques of the literature on media violence were offered, as well as a discussion of the divide between the absence of media violence in the criminological literature and the emphasis on it in other disciplines. Savage gains credibility by using other people's research and studies to support his claim. This article will not be used in my argument because the study conducted concluded that the empirical literature on violence and aggression in the media has not established that exposure to violence in the media causes violent criminal behavior. Therefore, it would not help me support my claim that media violence can cause violent criminal behavior.