This research has implications for legislation and regulation. Central censorship needs to be more accountable. Age classifications need to be reconsidered. Debates on violence need to include factual programmes, such as, the news. Responsibilities of control and provision of programmes for children needs to be re-defined.
Media education needs a higher priority in schools.
The issues of information, accountability and review of classifications and control and provision are important. Acknowledging that the word violent is subjective causes difficulties. Open debate as to the different forms of acceptable and unacceptable violence may be uncomfortable, not least for the State. State sanctioned and condemned violence occurs in times of unrest, for example, in Northern Ireland, where political activists are called terrorists and soldiers and policemen working against them are portrayed as heroic. In order for it to work, criteria for the censorship of television and film ought to be more clear and consistent.