Monthly Archives: November 2007

Violent Computer Games and Youth Crime. Is there a link?

By SPCS | Published: November 30, 2007

The NZ Herald reports: “Violent Xbox video games are being fingered by a top police officer as a possible cause of rising violence among young people. “Superintendent Bill Harrison, national manager of police youth services, says youth violence rates have jumped in the past two or three years throughout the Western world, coinciding with the [...]

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The Case For Marriage

By SPCS | Published: November 26, 2007

Book Review by Kerrie Allen THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better off Financially. by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher (Broadway Books, 2000, 260pp, $29.90.Available from AD Books) The Case for Marriage provides the solid research facts about why marriage is a social good, more than just sex – [...]

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Chief Censor’s Annual Report on Hardcore Porn ‘Control’ Cause for Alarm

By SPCS | Published: November 15, 2007

Report 15/11/07 The latest Annual Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) tabled in Parliament yesterday, raises serious issues about its use of tax-payer funds ($3,458,777 held at 30 June 2007) and its lack of disclosure regarding its classification processes, particularly in relation to its clearance of well over 1,000 degrading and [...]

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Society Applauds DIA Trialling of Blocks on Child Porn by ISPs

By SPCS | Published: November 13, 2007

Press Release 13 November For a number of years the Society has been suggesting that all New Zealand ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to block ALL overseas based websites that host child pornography AND hard core pornography (NZ-based websites containing “objectionable content” including child porn are illegal under NZ censorship laws). Gay rights activists, paedophiles, homosexuals [...]

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