§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his answer of 30 October 2000,Official Report, columns 331-32W, what research has been conducted since May 1997 by the Broadcasting Standards Commission into public attitudes towards the portrayal of violence in broadcast programmes. [137998]
§ Janet AndersonThe Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) has conducted since May 1997 the following research into public attitudes towards the portrayal of violence in broadcast programmes
Men Viewing Violence (Stirling Media Research Institute, and Violence Research Centre, Manchester University, 1998; ISBN 1–872521-33-9).In addition the BSC was a member (with the BBC and the Independent Television Commission) of the Joint Working Party on Violence on Television. The Working Party's report "Violence and the Viewer" was published in 1998.
The BSC's recently published Briefing Update Number 6, "Matters of Offence", (published as part of the BSC's continuing monitoring of public perception of broadcasting, and including results from opinion pools and panels of viewers) includes a section on violence.