Workshop on Youth Violence

青少年暴力研讨会

• 批准号: 1322155
• 负责人: Brad Bushman
• 金额: $ 4.13万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322155&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Youth; Violence

"This is our first task - caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged."- President Barack Obama at the prayer vigil in Newtown, December 16, 2012On December 14th, 2012 Adam Lanza, age 20, first killed his mother in their home, and then went to an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and began shooting, killing 20 children and 6 school employees, and injuring 2 other school employees before killing himself. Lanza joins a small, but growing list of rampage shooters who have attacked schools, movie theaters, shopping malls, and other public venues. Despite the rarity of these events, the scale of the loss when it happens is so devastating and apparently random, that the public and the nation's legislators are seeking answers to questions about causes and potential prevention measures. When rampage shootings occur, people want to know "the" cause. But violent criminal behavior is very complex and is determined by multiple factors. The Administration and Congress are responding with proposals for designed to speak to the need for change. President Obama has asked Vice President Biden to coordinate federal efforts and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has introduced legislation for a National Academies study on the impact of violent video imagery on children. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va), who has sponsored past research efforts on this matter, has asked the National Science Foundation (NSF) to find out what researchers know and don't know about the connection between exposure to media violence and youth violence and other factors that contribute to these devastating events. Professor Brad Bushman - an expert on exposure to violent media - and Dean Katherine Newman - an expert in rampage shooting - have called upon a committee of nine other participants with relevant expertise (e.g., communication, law, sociology, computer science, adolescent development, natural language analysis, gun policy, data analysis) to address this urgent and important topic. We will also identify gaps in the scientific literature by identifying what we have yet to learn, but can learn, from social science research.

“这是我们的第一项任务 - 照顾孩子。这是我们的第一份工作。如果我们不正确，我们就不会有任何正确的事。作为一个社会，我们将被判断。并在自杀之前伤害另外2名学校员工。 Lanza加入了攻击学校，电影院，购物中心和其他公共场所的横冲直撞射手的小名单。尽管这些事件很罕见，但损失发生时的规模是如此毁灭性且显然是随机的，以至于公众和国家的立法者正在寻求有关原因和潜在预防措施的问题的答案。发生横冲直撞的枪击事件时，人们想知道“”原因。但是暴力犯罪行为非常复杂，由多种因素决定。政府和国会正在提出旨在表达变革需求的建议。奥巴马总统已要求贝登副总统协调联邦努力，参议员杰伊·洛克菲勒（Jay Rockefeller）（D-W.VA。）介绍了关于暴力视频图像对儿童的影响的国家学院研究的立法。众议员弗兰克·沃尔夫（R-VA）赞助了有关此事的研究工作，他已要求国家科学基金会（NSF）了解研究人员对媒体暴力与青年暴力的暴露与其他造成这些毁灭性事件的影响之间的联系和不了解。布拉德·布什曼（Brad Bushman）教授 - 暴露媒体的专家 - 横冲直撞射击专家迪恩·凯瑟琳·纽曼（Dean Katherine Newman）呼吁由九个其他具有相关专业知识的参与者组成的委员会（例如，沟通，法律，社会学，计算机科学，青少年发展，自然语言分析，枪支政策，数据分析，数据分析），以解决此紧急和重要主题。我们还将通过确定我们尚未学习的内容，但可以从社会科学研究中学到的东西来确定科学文献中的差距。