Review of the "Movies Delinquency and Crimes" by Hebert Blumer and Philip Hauser

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UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA, FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUN ICATION A REVIEW ON MOVIES, DELINQUENCY AND CRIME (Herbert Blumer. and Philip M. Hauser (1933) BY ABUMERE, Omoyeme Ayodeji (Matric. No: 129083013) ADESINA, Evaristus Adedapo (Matric. No: 129083001) AZEEZ, Yunus Kunle (Matric. No: 129083035) (M.Sc. Full Time) COURSE: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MASS COMMUNICATION COURSE CODE: MAS 805 LECTURER: DR. THERESA IFEOMA AMOBI © JAN., 2013 Bibliography Citation Hebert, B. and Philip, M.H., (1993). Movies, delinquency and crimes. United States of America: The Macmillian Company. INTRODUCTION Studying mass media effects on the audience is, perhaps, one area that has frequently attracted the attention of mass communication scholars because of the media’s potentiality to exert certain patterns of behaviour on individual member of the audience. This is buttressed by Donald (1996), as cited in Daramola (2002), saying, “The concept of impact of mass media messages has been and probably, still is, regarded as central and fundamental to social psychology.” Consequently, several mass communication scholars have carried out different but related studies aimed at ascertaining the actual influence of media messages, received through such channels as motion pictures, on the behavioural patterns of the audience and how such patterns of behaviour promote or degenerate acceptable standard of actions, especially among the younger generation in a given society. Motion pictures were, from the early days, presumed to have major impact on children, especially those in their formative years. However, the need to establish the actual kind of effect movies have on children has, therefore, become a great concern to researchers, who, through their works, have tried to investigate the kind of impact

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