From: Heinrich Harke, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I saw the article and just faxed the following letter to the Editor
of the Daily Telegraph, using information previously distributed via
CyberShooters:
22 May 2000
Sir,
The new research results which show that toy guns in nurseries
reduce aggression (22 May) should not have surprised the experts.
They appear to confirm, albeit for a younger age group, the
results of a monitoring programme of 4000 children between the
ages of six and fifteen carried out by the US Department of
Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
from 1993 to 1995. The key findings are that children who are
given (real) guns by their parents do not commit gun crimes (in
contrast to children who obtain guns illegally); they are less
likely to commit any kind of street crime than children who have
no gun in the house or acquire an illegal gun; and they have much
lower rates of delinquency and drupg use than children who obtain
illegal guns or do not use guns at all.
These findings reportedly surprised the researchers at the time.
Do all social scientists wirking in this field start out their
research with the same set of prejudices?
Yours faithfully
Dr Heinrich Harke
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