@article{ref1,
title="Reactions of Juvenile Delinquents to "Justified" and "Less Justified" Movie Violence",
journal="Journal of research in crime and delinquency",
year="1974",
author="Berkowitz, Leonard and Parke, R. D. and Leyens, J. P. and West, Stephen G.",
volume="11",
number="1",
pages="16-24",
abstract="In order to determine whether juvenile delinquents would respond to the sight of someone being beaten up the same way as previously studied university students, two-thirds of the in stitutionalized delinquents in the sample watched a brief filmed prize fight after having been insulted or treated in a neutral fashion by the experimenter's confederate. A story summary given to the subjects depicted the defeated movie character as either a callous exploiter of other persons or as a more sym pathetic individual. Immediately after the film the insulted de linquents shown the exploiter being beaten administered stronger electric shocks to the confederate than a no-movie control group and somewhat more than other provoked subjects seeing the sympathetic character being hurt. Like the university students, the delinquents had apparently regarded the exploiter's beating as &quot;justified&quot; aggression; and this interpretation temporarily legitimated their own attacks upon their tormentor.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4278",
doi="10.1177/002242787401100103",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002242787401100103"
}