August 1, 2008

Violence in Video Games

To the Editor:

In "Go Ahead, Steal My Car" (The Chronicle Review, June 27), Bill Blake surprisingly ignores decades of research on the impact of media violence on children. In July 2000, for example, a joint statement of six major medical associations and academies (including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) indicated that "well over 1,000 studies … point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence

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