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Alcohol and Violence - The Nature of the Relationship and the Promise of Prevention (Paperback)
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Alcohol and Violence - The Nature of the Relationship and the Promise of Prevention (Paperback)
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Many people have experienced or witnessed situations in which
people drinking alcohol get aggressive, obnoxious, and violent.
Scientific research has shown evidence of a relationship between
alcohol and violence, and even evidence that alcohol plays a role
in causing violent and aggressive responses. The book explores a
number of aspects of this relationship. If you have been drinking
are you more likely to be a victim of crime? If victimized, does
drinking alcohol make you more likely to be injured? How does
availability of alcohol in the community influence rates of
violence among Mexican American youth? Does advertising that links
sex and alcohol result in higher rates of sexual assault in Latino
neighborhoods? How do elementary school children react to
experimentation with drugs, alcohol, and aggression? Do countries
outside the United States have alcohol and violence problems, and
do these impact men and women differently? We presents original
research that shows the depths and conditions under which alcohol
and violence are linked, further strengthening the evidence that
alcohol use and availability is an important factor in violence in
our cities, neighborhoods, school, and homes. The good news is that
we regulate alcohol use and availability effectively, with a body
of established laws and procedures. We can, therefore, find ways
using this existing system to develop new ways to prevent the
alcohol related violence studied here. The second half of the book
begins this task by laying out the principles of environmental
prevention, a strategy that has been very successful in a number of
health and safety related domains. The next four chapters show just
how environmental prevention strategies have worked, and worked
very effectively, to lower rates of violence by reducing alcohol
availability and alcohol consumption. The research reported here
shows communities different approaches and mechanisms to achieve
reductions in violence, and they provide a road map for communities
everywhere to follow suit and reduce alcohol related violence.
Reducing violence can be accomplished, everyone can do it if they
work together, and the result is a safer and better society.
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