Statistical Sources

Anderson, C., Berkowitz, L., Donnerstein, E., Huesmann, R.L., Johnson, D.J., Linz, D. Malumuth, M.N. and Wartella, E. (2003). The influence of media violence on youth. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 4(3), 81-110

This is an article in which numerous prominent figures collaborated. In the article, the authors use many statistics on video games, movies and music. Their use of numbers provides useful and relevant information. They cite many reports and studies that offer statistics to their research. Also, the article uses graphs to demonstrate several statistical points. This would be a great source to use when writing an article as a journalist would be able to use hard stats that others could not refute.


Fox, J. (1996). Trends in juvenile violence: A report to the United States Attorney General
on current and future rates of juvenile offendin. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics.

This report is mostly about youth violence and its current trends. While the report is not entirely about media effects on youth violence, it does allude to media contributions to violence. The real reason a journalst could use this is because he or she could analyze how violent statistics have risen along as compared to media violence. From there, one can assert whether or not media are to blame. There are numerous charts and predictions about juveniles and violence that would be great to use for a journalist in this report. It could also provide statistics from the 1990s and see if the predictions about future violence were correct. The report's assertion that media assist in violence could be put to the test as one could compare media violence statistics and violent crime statistics.