Criminological analysis of the effect of violent music on the increase of dangerous mood and violent behavior

Music is an important art and product in different forms and formats in the hands of today's mankind. Investigating the impact of loud music on human behavior is one of the important topics in various sciences such as psychology, social sciences and criminology. Considering the abundance and expansion of music genres and young people taking examples from singers and being influenced by them or being influenced by music itself, it creates the necessity to investigate the impact of violent music on young people and teenagers in terms of increasing the dangerous state and appearance. These effects are discussed. And this question keeps coming to mind, what effect does violent music have on increasing the dangerousness? In the science of psychology, research has been done regarding the impact of words and also the impact of some types of music on people's minds, but in the field of criminology, the impact of music on people and their resilience has not been addressed, at least in Iran. The descriptive-analytical method has investigated the effects of violent music on increasing the dangerous state and the manifestation of these effects on the behavior of people, especially young people and teenagers, and the occurrence of aggressive and violent behaviors. In this study, first, a definition of the dangerous state, music and its constituent elements are presented, and then, according to the theories related to violence in criminology and the data taken from psychologists' experiments, the impact of violent music and its lyrics on The increase of dangerous state and violent behavior has been discussed. The result shows that violent music with faster rhythmic beats or having violent content causes an increase in dangerous state in people and hence causes Violent behavior occurs in them.