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2.2 Media Influences Supporters of education influences on the child becoming a criminal believe that one of the main factors comes from the media, as the current era is now highly dependent on technology. One of the biggest media influences usually comes from television, movies and especially the Internet which contain strong violence. According to the article "15 Movies That Inspired Real-Life Crimes" (n.d.), in 1993, two 10-year-old boys who were fans of the movie "Chucky" killed a woman, Suzanne Capper, by torturing her and setting her on fire to kill her. The two boys sang “I'm Chucky. Chucky Wants to Play” and played imitations from the film on a tape. In addition to that, according to statistics from Caroline Knorr (as cited in Emmons, 2013), 90% of films and 60% of television programs show some form of violence and this is important because children usually watch 4 hours of television per day and have multiple risk factors that increase the likelihood that they will act aggressively. Therefore, it can be concluded that exposure to media violence will increase the likelihood that a child will subsequently commit a crime. The second main factor that people commit crimes would be because of games with violent content. Many people of this age spend a lot of time playing them, and most of the popular ones promote negative themes and therefore can heavily influence a person's lifestyle. Studies have shown that children overly exposed to violence will make them aggressive and insensitive to negative acts and worsen if the child is emotionally unstable. This was demonstrated in a study published by Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice in which they examined violent video game exposure among 227 juvenile delinquents in Pennsylvania and found that an average of 9 of them committed serious crimes. middle of paper... ...imposing greater media restrictions on violent content, raising the age for viewing violent films or television programs, limiting the violent scenes that directors can film, limiting access to material that can influence criminal or violent behavior on the Internet, etc. 4.0 Conclusion In conclusion, criminals are what they are now by education. Although some factors of criminals with biological influences make them more likely to commit crimes. However, it can be clearly seen that family and media play an important role in influencing criminal behavior in this era where it has been proven that when violent acts are frequently observed or thought about, it will increase the risk factor for people normal and even more so for people. with aggressive genes to commit a crime. Therefore, it can be clearly seen that the education of the offender prevails over his nature to commit deviant crimes.