Main Issues - Violence

• Always been a feature of entertainment for children and adults.
• Classification takes into account the degree and nature of the violence.
• More restrictive classifications: portrayal of violence as normal solution to problems, heroes who inflict pain and injury, callousness towards victims, encouragement of aggressive attitudes, content which depicts characters taking pleasure in pain or humiliation.
• Sexualised violence or works which glamorise violence will relieve more restrictive classifications or even be cut.
• Strict policy on sexual violence and rape.
• Cuts more likely with video works than film because of potential for replaying scenes out of context.
• Association of sex with non-consensual restraint, pain or humiliation may be cut.