20 June
Said Saidi, 24, was found with stab wounds in a flat in Greater Manchester. A 29-year-old man has been charged with his death.
3 June
Lee Pickles, 37, was stabbed in the chest at a party in Greater Manchester. The father-of-two died in hospital the next day.
Media effect on violence Television, movies, music and computer games have a significant bearing upon how young people negotiate culture in terms of their masculinity and femininity. They create inspirational goals through consumerism and materialism which filter through to socially excluded neighbourhoods, just as they do to virtually every part of British society. |
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Some people suggest that these factors can drive people to commit violent acts.
Mr Winlow says people become violent for a whole range of social economic, psychological reasons and the cause of relationship between media images and actual criminal activity is not a factor of its own.
| "The suggestion of young people watching violent media images and then going out and committing violent acts is quite absurd." Simon Winlow |
"If people are already predisposed to violence and then view a lot of violence in media, they may be more likely to become violent as a result. But non violent people aren't going to be influenced by watching Reservoir dogs."
"The reasons why people become violent is far more complex and trying to find something to blame, like media, cinema or computer games, is ridiculous."