> The war effect theory does not explain
> that. However, it is possible to extend this argument to other
> factors
> legitimizing violence e.g. the hip hop music and gangsta rap in
> particular -
> which would make the Archer's theory better suited to explaining
> this kind
> of violence.
There is, of course, the minor problem that the emergence of gangsta as the dominant hip hop genre in the nineties was concurrent with a drop in the murder rate.
Michael McIntyre http://morbidsymptoms.blogspot.com