Are Video G ames An Influence on CRIME?!

We did a survey on whether people think video games are an influence on violence and crime or not. The survey was done on a year 7 class with 18 pupils. 15 people in the class said it wasn’t an influence. However the 3 people who said it was an influence were girls.

Pictures of video games people think are an influence on violence crime Grand Theft Auto Saints Row

Ever since their conception, video games have contained violence, violence being to cause pain or death onto other human beings from the earliest games to the most advanced modern 1 st person shooter. Games don’t have an intention to bring thoughts of crime to mind. Violence is usually a last resort for getting revenge.

Yes, it is an influence Violent video games have been linked to violent crimes. Devin Moore had been playing a violent game, which was taken to the extreme, called GTA SanAndreas. This is only one game in a list of series of games. There are another six games that are in this series. People who have repeated exposure to violent video games cause a big effect on the prefrontal cortex. Playing brutal video games have been linked to violent or aggressive behaviour. There have been many crimes that were associated with video games. In fact, the government of Greece had banned all computer games, including console, handheld, and cell phone games. They banned these games because they don’t want their kids to become influenced by video games. The violence in video games has been a problem that affects the kids that play them over the last ten years. You can restart a video game; you can’t restart something that happened in real-life. Parents should be more involved in what their kids play. If they control what kids play, then they can help protect their kids from taking videos game too serious.