Kira
Lyell
March
29, 2017
Technical
Writing
Word
Count: 360
Many people tend to believe that
video game violence has an influence on violent crime, but I would have to
disagree with this. Everyone wants to point fingers and blame a game, rather
than find the real issue at hand. I personally While doing some research on this topic, I
found this chart below. This chart was created from a study that was done by
the University of Oxford.
This is a graph that was created to
show that whenever video game revenue increases, the number of violent crimes decrease.
In the years 2004 – 2006, that is not the case. This is a simple graph that
only shows two things, which is exactly what they wanted it to show. They
wanted to show that there was no relationship between violent crimes and video
games. I personally feel like there was some information missing in the graph
above that could strength their argument.
I believe that there should also be
a line showing the revenue received from video games that had violent content.
This should be included so people could see that not all video games that are
profited from are violent. I also feel as though there should be bars to show
not only the numbers of violent crimes committed, but the number of violent
crimes committed by the younger audience that video games are aimed at. This
would show that the number of crimes committed by the younger audience do no
increase the revenue of the video games. It is also very hard to understand
this graph completely. Also, why did the statistics change in 2004 – 2006?
Maybe there was a drop in the sales of video games due to insufficient product
for the consumers.
This is a very informative graph
that holds a lot of information, and it showed exactly what they wanted it to
show. I do think that some changes should be made. If they were to make the
simple changes that I made above, then their argument would be stronger.
Work Cited
"Posts
about Grand Theft Auto V on Press Start to Begin." Press Start to Begin.
N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2017, https://pressstarttobegin.org/tag/grand-theft-auto-v/
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