Web resource:	http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/6/F/F/%7B6FF03CB5-1EF7-43EE-84FC-F0997C5C84C9%7Dtandi372_001.pdf
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Alcohol and homicide in AustraliaTrends and issues in crime and criminal justice
Authors:	Payne, Jason Dearden, Jack
Keywords:	Homicide;Drug and alcohol misuse
Year:	2009
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Criminology
Citation:	No. 372
Notes:	Overview:This Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) study examines the 1565 solved homicides in the AIC’s National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) database for the period between 1 July 2000 and 30 June 2006 in relation to alcohol use by the victim or the offender. Discussion:The study found, comparable to previous research, that victim, offender and incident characteristics distinguished alcohol-related homicides from other homicides. It is the incident characteristics which most markedly set alcohol-related homicides apart from the rest, underscoring the importance of the situational and environmental factors which trigger alcohol-related homicide. A key finding of this analysis was that alcohol is equally likely to be associated in intimate-partner homicides as it is in all other homicides, but in cases where a male victim is killed by a female partner, alcohol is much more highly linked to the homicide (73%) than in the case of a female victim and a male intimate partner (36%). In an examination of homicides involving intimate partners within the Indigenous population, alcohol was shown to be a factor in the vast majority of cases.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13332
ISSN:	0817-8542
Physical description:	6p
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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