The article describes how the content of what young people are watching of television is responsible for rises in criminal behaviours amongst young people.

One assumption is that young people are susceptible to the influence of television. In the article Matthew Baggott, the deputy chief constable states of young people, `They are very vulnerable to the influences of the media.'  This influence is bet shown in the famous Bobo doll studies of Bandura (1963). I chose this evidence because it is a benchmark in the field of the Social Learning Theory.

My second assumption is that the crime rate is affected by portrayals of other moral issues than violence on television. In the article Sir Edward Crew, the head of West Midlands police said of increases in violent crime...