Shortly after a Boston television station broadcast a film in which teenagers doused a wreck with gasoline and set it on fire, six young men attacked a woman and set her on fire identical way. Several months later, NBC televised Born Innocent, a television movie, which depicted the sexual assault of a young girl with a broomstick. Three days after this program aired, a group of girls committed a similar attack on another 9-year-old girl ("Wild" A20). These are just a couple of shocking examples among many that illustrate how television violence can trigger violent behavior. Violence in society is a complex problem and numerous sources can be cited for blame. If you want to gain control, an obvious place to start is television, because televised violence can promote violence in those who see it. This is especially true for our children and the programs offered to them. Many people argue that it is not possible to establish any cause and effect link between the violence seen on television and the behavior of children. They insist that those who assert such a connection are simply engaging in an elaborate post hoc fallacy that is based on mere coincidences. However, an experiment at Penn State University begins to establish the conclusion that there is a strong link between children's behavior and the violence they are exposed to on television. In this experiment, 92 kindergartners were divided into three groups based on the measured levels of aggression they displayed (high aggressive, medium aggressive, low aggressive). Over a four-week period, each group watched set amounts of different programs. One group of programs contained high-violence programs such as Superman and Batman. In... middle of the sheet... 5-153. Complete text of social sciences. Network. March 11, 2011. Levesque, Roger JR Adolescents, Media, and the Law: What Developmental Science Reveals and What Free Speech Requires. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 2007. Ebrary. Network. March 3, 2011. Lyons, Royce L., John Newti, and Elan S. Dunn. Television: The bent world. Ottumwa,IA: Hawkeye State Press, 1975. Print.Nathanson, Amy I. “Identifying and Explaining the Relationship Between Parental Mediation and Children's Aggression.” Communication Research 26.2: 124-143. Complete text of social sciences. Network. March 1, 2011. "Wild Nights." New York Times. November 29, 1995: A20. Academic research completed. Network. February 7, 2011. Wilson, Robin Fretwell, Dorothy G. Singer, and Nancy E. Dowd. Handbook of children, culture and violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. EBSCO Ebooks. Network. March 4.2011.