This hardback Symposium contains the comments on the results of the Academic Working Party set up by both Houses of Parliament in the UK. Eight of the Fifteen strong working party made contributions on wide ranging aspects of the subject drawing on their specific professional expertise. Contains a listing of those videos being prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 which had grown to 51 by January 1984 with synopses of ten of these.
Background History
The Parliamentary Group Video Enquiry was set up in 1983 to produce factual evidence relating to the effects upon children of their viewing scenes if violence in video films usually in the home. It had led to the passing of the Video Recordings Act in 1984.