Yet the book is very good. It is not one of those books that will bore you to death. He breaks down very well what youth culture is going through, and what young people and especially young boys are going through. But I will caution everyone that the media have focused on young boys in Colorado, and they have focused on boys in these other communities, and we are making a grave error by leaving these young women out of this whole analysis. Young women play a significant role in my own studies even when I deal with gang violence and so on.
Young women are very much involved.
One of the things that is very strong in this book and something we know very well as researchers is the negative influence of violent images. Professor Leonard D. Eron has done tremendous amount of research there. He is the pioneer. I would say that his work is one you should look at and it will leave no doubt that violence from the media plays a role. But I caution you.