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Benefiting Society And Children Through Violent Media: As Evidenced By First Amendment Protection For Violent Video Games, Austin Nowakowski
Benefiting Society And Children Through Violent Media: As Evidenced By First Amendment Protection For Violent Video Games, Austin Nowakowski
Austin James Nowakowski
This article discusses the constitutional, psychological, and societal reasons for why the courts have never upheld any laws censoring violent video games.
Disentangling The Psychology And Law Of Instrumental And Reactive Subtypes Of Aggression, Reid G. Fontaine
Disentangling The Psychology And Law Of Instrumental And Reactive Subtypes Of Aggression, Reid G. Fontaine
Reid G. Fontaine
Behavioral scientists have distinguished an instrumental (or proactive) style of aggression from a style that is reactive (or hostile). Whereas instrumental aggression is cold-blooded, deliberate, and goal driven, reactive aggression is characterized by hot blood, impulsivity, and uncontrollable rage. Scholars have pointed to the distinction between murder (committed with malice aforethought) and manslaughter (enacted in the heat of passion in response to provocation) in criminal law as a reflection of the instrumental–reactive aggression dichotomy. Recently, B. J. Bushman and C. A. Anderson (2001) argued that the instrumental–reactive aggression distinction has outlived its usefulness in psychology and pointed to inconsistencies and …