How do the Metropolitan Police use video game codes and conventions to discourage violence amongst teenagers?
… of knife crime and the involvement of youths; people assume that most teens are associated with violence, gangs and crime. Alf Hitchcock, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, spoke on the age groups associated with knife crime, and was talking about the “worrying change in the age profile” of knife crime victims and offenders, which had decreased from mid-late teens to early twenties, down to early-to-mid-youths. Maybe this is down to the presentation of the media, or maybe the fact that youth culture has changed a lot over the years, but springing to mind of the Metropolitan police is the effects of violent films, video games and music that are influencing young people. Using the effect videogames have on youths, the Metropolitan police decided to create an advert to address the seriousness of carrying a knife. “Knife City” is an advert commissioned by the Metropolitan police to warn the public …
