VIOLENCE

• Classification decisions wil take account of the degree and nature of any violence in a work
• Works which feature:

1. the portrayal of violence as a normal solution to problems
2. heroes who inflict pain and injury
3. callousness towards victims
4. the encouragement of aggressive attitudes
5. content which depicts characters taking pleasure in pain or humiliation

will receive more restrictive classifications

• Sexualised violence or works which glorify or glamorise violence may even be cut
• There is a strict policy on sexual violence and rape
• Content which might eroticise or enorese sexual violence may require cuts