This article presents a brief overview of existing research on the effects of exposure to violent video games. An updated meta-analysis reveals that exposure to violent video games is significantly linked to increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, and cardiovascular arousal, and to decreases in helping behaviour. Experimental studies reveal this linkage to be...

The use of ‘design’ within qualitative research on crime and victimisation, the social disciplines more generally, has seen very little commentary or discussion. ‘Design’ is referred to throughout as professional scholarly practice rather than ‘research design’, that is, practical plan for methods used generate data. Design in this former sense historically drawn both arts engineering give form...

recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in sweden. many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...

© SAGE Publications, Inc. The final, definitive version of this article has been published in: Wortham, Stanton Reviews: Redefining Psychology Methodologically, Metatheoretically, Pedagogically, and Ethically BENJAMIN BRADLEY, Psychology and Experience. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 256 pp. ISBN 0 521