In 2006, 18-year-old Devin Moore was arrested in Alabama on car theft charges. Police officers took him to the station and started booking, a minute later Moore attacked a police officer and fled, he then grabbed the officer's keys and got into the officers' car and fled the scene . Moore had no criminal record. Based on the lawsuit against the video game companies soon after this incident, Moore had played a lot of Grand Theft Auto before the murder (Dakss). Grand Theft Auto is a violent video game that encourages theft and killing of police officers. Many video game critics blame video games for adolescents' aggressive behaviors. Video games have been a controversial topic; Many critics of video games see gaming as a way to expose violent behavior to children, while others argue that video games are simply a way of making art and an expression of their fantasies. In particular, Henry Jerkins in “Art Form for the Digital Age” and Karen Sternheimer in “Do Video Games Kill” discuss video games and how they are associated with violence. Americans brought over 215 million...
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