Influences of News Violence on Children’s Emotion and Judgment:Investigating the Mediating Role of Fright Reaction

The child abuse reporting guideline compliance in Korean newspapers

“…Several researchers have argued that special efforts are necessary to protect human rights in crime reports, especially when they involve minors and children ( Hove et al, 2013 , Mejia et al, 2012 , Niner et al, 2013 ). Crime reports can have a tremendous emotional and cognitive impact on children, and exposure to violent crime reports increases their fear of crime ( Yoo et al, 2016 ). Further, Lee and Jung (2016) reported that children exposed to violent crime news could overestimate the possibility of crime and suffer psychological trauma as if crime scenes are persistent.…”