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/^t/The increase of violence has recently become a very serious issue for Poles. Sociologists, psychologists, politicians and also the Catholic church representatives are trying to find the reasons for it and, simultaneously, solutions to stop the phenomenon of 'a rising tide of violence' in Poland nowadays. Generally speaking, three major causes of the increase of violence can be distinguished. The most obvious one is the pejorative influence of television on people's attitudes and behaviors. Another observable reason is the phenomenon of conspicuous consumption in Polish society, in which not moral but materialistic values are becoming predominant. Still, sociologists associate the increase of violence in Poland with the influx of people from the former Soviet Union and Romania.