Back into the swing of things...

Right so, i haven't done any work recently and i figured i should do some just to get back into the habit of it.

I have decided to look at the films Adulthood and Kidulthood to see how the street violence (mainly the knife crime) in the films influence teenagers into following the film and being a copycat.

I am interested in finding teenagers that find they have to carry a knife themselves or carry out any act of street violence on others, whether they have been reading about the crimes in the newspapers or watching it on the tv or just simply watching films that are strong in teenage violence and glamourise it to the public.

Seeing knife crime constantly in the media can have three effects on people;
- Shock them into seeing the consequences and turning their backs on committing the crime.
- Make them fear it may just happen to them and therefore they feel the need to carry a knife themselves in 'defence'.
- Make them want to carry a knife because it seems that everyone else is and it can make them feel 'hard'.

Different types of media can have different effects on people, the news giving off more of a shock towards teenagers whereas films such as Kidulthood and Adulthood, which have a target audience of teenagers and young adults, will glamourise the use of knives and street crime as teenagers look to these films as enjoyment and entertainment and may want to copy their favourite characters in it.

With my hypothesis in place, i am ready to devise another survey to be carried out for deffinate in the next few days to gather the facts on whether teenagers feel the need to carry knives after seeing coverage on the news or the films that have made it into the mainstream.