Violence
Society Granted Leave to have classification of Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version) reviewed
Monday, July 21st, 2008Press Release 21 July 2008
The Society was today granted leave by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, Mr Brendan Boyle, to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review to review the classification of the computer game Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version). The game was classified R18 by the Chief Censor’s Office.
Film “End of the Spear” R16 rating downgraded to R13 following Society’s successful appeal
Friday, July 4th, 2008Press Release 4 July 2008
The film “End of the Spear” has had its classification downgraded from R16 to R13 following a successful appeal by the Society against the classification decision issued by the Chief Censor’s Office. The Society contended in its written and oral submisssion to the Board that the nature of the depiction of [...]
Society President Angry over Pro-Abortionists’ Crimes and Deception
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Press Release 11 June 2008
Society president John Mills is very angry and says: “In the Silent Screams DVD promoted on our Society’s website (www.spcs.org) an unborn child is torn apart without anaesthetic. Someone needs to be held to account for such brutal murders carried out every day in New Zealand with taxpayers’ funding. By far [...]
Application for Leave re Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited version)
Friday, May 30th, 2008The Society has sought leave under s. 47(2)(e) of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 (“the Act”), to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review (“the Board”) for a review of the classification of the highly controversial console game Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version) [also known as or GTA [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV: Who is the NZ distributor profiting from this offensive “Crime-Promoting Game”?
Monday, May 19th, 2008Grand Theft Auto IV (also known as GTA 4) – a computer game formatted for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 – was launched on April 29, 2008 and sold nearly 2.9 million copies in the United States in its first five days.1 The game – made by Two’s Rockstar studio - with first-week worldwide sales [...]
Is there a causal-effect between exposure to video game violence and violent behaviour?
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Video Game Violence and Public Policy
David Walsh, Ph.D.
National Institute on Media and the Family
Concern about violent video and computer games is based on the assumption that they contribute to aggression and violence among young players. That conclusion was originally based on the extensive body of research about the effects of television violence on children’s behavior. [...]
Detrimental impact of hardcore pornography on young people
Monday, December 24th, 2007LIVES CHANGED: The accessability of hardcore pornography is having a detrimental impact on the lives of young people in remote Australian towns and is seen as central to a sexual assault in Maningrida, east of Darwin.
AAP Friday, 21 December 2007
Posted: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4332725a12.html
Dr James Dobson Interviews Serial Rapist and Murderer Ted Bundy hours before he is executed by electrocution
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Ted Bundy explains step-by-step to clinical psychologist, Dr James Dobson, how his interest in soft-core porn led on to an addiction to hardcore porn and then on to a fascination for hard-core violent porn and how that helped fuel and crystallise his homicidal sexual fantasies leading to numerous horrific sex crimes and murders. Bundy explains [...]
Dr. Craig Anderson: Violent Video Games and Aggression
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Dr. Craig Anderson from the University of Iowa is one of the most frequently cited and published researchers in the field of video game violence. Anderson’s work has been used in a variety of venues from scholarly publications to State Supreme Court arguments. Anderson research was used in the Illinois video game legislation defense where [...]
Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents Theory, Research, and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Sunday, December 9th, 2007by Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile and Katherine E. Buckley
Description
Violent video games are successfully marketed to and easily obtained by children and adolescents. Even the U.S. government distributes one such game, America’s Army, through both the internet and its recruiting offices. Is there any scientific evidence to support the claims that violent games contribute [...]
Society Raises Concerns Over Dissemination of Objectionable Internet Content
Monday, August 13th, 2007Media Release 13/08/07
On Thursday night last week The Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a A$189 million package to deal with the growing problems of internet porn and dissemination of, and availability of, objectionable content to minors via Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The tough measures adopted by the Howard government to stamp out two evils [...]
OFLC Ban on Reservoir Dogs Computer Game
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Media Release 11/07/06
The Society is pleased that the Office of Film and Literature Classification (see Scoop 7 July) has applied the censorship law correctly and banned the computer game Reservoir Dogs that is based on the Quentin Tarantino’s ultra-violent sick film of the same name. However, the Society’s president Mike Petrus says:
“The OFLC has a [...]