The Violence Profile is a periodic report which includes both message system analysis, which addresses the content of violence shown on television, and cultivation analysis, which focuses on the consequences of living with and learning from television. The Violence Index combines three sets of observations (the percent of programs containing any violence, the rate of violent scenes per program, and the percent of major characters involved in violence) to make a single indicator sensitive to a range of program characteristics. The report discusses some issues related to disagreement over measurements, the dynamics of violence, cultivation analysis, and the structural basis of violence. 1 figure, 23 tables, and 21 references