Gratuitous violence is scripted for ratings rather than dramatic necessity

Evidence

Gratuitous violence is violence that is injected into programs for extraneous reasons rather than being dramatically necessary for plot development and character designation. It is also excessive in amount, duration, and intensity. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 801

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down the precise definition of gratuitous violence that the chapter’s moral-disengagement analysis will operate on.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 801
• XREF: connects to: Televised violence does not attract larger audiences — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 931; Broadcasters justify violent programming by blaming viewers’ supposed cravings — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 929
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Televised violence does not attract larger audiences — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 931; Broadcasters justify violent programming by blaming viewers’ supposed cravings — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 929