Violence and crime

Evaluating the effect of individual alcohol licensing decisions on local health and crime

Licensing authority control of alcohol availability can have a positive impact on health and crime in a local vicinity

Sobriety bracelets: The new ‘must have’ criminal justice accessory?

Dr Laura Bainbridge discusses the implications of UK politicians tagging on to the South Dakota model of enforced sobriety

Alcohol control policies and alcohol-related traffic harm in Lithuania: a short summary of a success story

Mindaugas Štelemėkas chronicles the country's recent developments in alcohol policy

Young risky drinkers: overrepresented as victims and perpetrators of alcohol’s harms to others

Evidence highlights human cost of alcohol-related violence triggered by risky drinking behaviours

Unpacking the politically sensitive relationship between alcohol, drugs and domestic violence

Through an Australian case study, Sophie Yates tries to get to the root of a very complex issue with no easy solution

Drunk and doubly deviant? The role of gender and intoxication in sentencing assault offences

Dr Carly Lightowlers finds that the sentencing guidelines for alcohol-related offences in England and Wales are disproportionately harsher on women

Which drinking practices are associated with violent behaviour?

Attempts to ameliorate alcohol-related violence ought to be context- and peer group specific, says Carly Lightowlers