Violent video games and the Supreme Court: lessons for the scientific community in the wake of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.

@article{Ferguson2013ViolentVG,
  title={Violent video games and the Supreme Court: lessons for the scientific community in the wake of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.},
  author={Christopher J. Ferguson},
  journal={The American psychologist},
  year={2013},
  volume={68 2},
  pages={
          57-74
        }
}
  • C. Ferguson
  • Published 1 February 2013
  • Sociology, Medicine
  • The American psychologist
In June 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that video games enjoy full free speech protections and that the regulation of violent game sales to minors is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also referred to psychological research on violent video games as "unpersuasive" and noted that such research contains many methodological flaws. Recent reviews in many scholarly journals have come to similar conclusions, although much debate continues. Given past statements by the American Psychological… Expand
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