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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Commissioners’ Drugs Committee, Australasian Centre for Policing Research | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-30T23:44:57Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-30T23:44:57Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19242 | - |
| dc.format | 20 p. | en |
| dc.language | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Australasian Centre for Policing Research | en |
| dc.subject | Drug and alcohol misuse | en |
| dc.subject | Criminal justice responses | en |
| dc.subject | Indigenous issues | en |
| dc.subject | Policing | en |
| dc.subject | Statistics | en |
| dc.subject.other | People with mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues | en |
| dc.title | The role of alcohol in family violenceCommissioners’ Drugs Committee Discussion Paper | en |
| dc.type | Report | en |
| dc.identifier.catalogid | 3753 | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Statistics | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | new_record | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Report | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | International | en |
| dc.subject.readinglist | People with mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues | en |
| dc.description.notes | This paper focuses on the violence perpetrated by men against women and discusses the role of alcohol in family violence through Australian and New Zealand literature and research. An overview and available statistics on family violence involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people; and family violence in the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are provided. The case for alcohol as a major causal factor and the case that alcohol use as a factor but not a cause of family violence are both outlined. Summary of the arguments on the role of alcohol comes to the conclusion that the evidence suggests approximately two thirds of incidents do not involve the use of alcohol. Therefore, it cannot be regarded as a contributing factor in the majority of family violence incidents. For those that do involve alcohol, the evidence strongly suggests that alcohol misuse is not a primary cause of that violence, so correlation should not be confused with causality. This contradicts the anecdotal evidence from police that nearly all family violence incidents involved the use of alcohol. A possible explanation is that the use of alcohol (or other drugs) by the perpetrators makes it more likely that victims will call the police. This then skews police experience towards those incidents that involve alcohol. The research literature on links between alcohol and family violence does not support alcohol being a major causal factor in family violence. Reasons include: the majority or a large proportion of family violence incidents take place in the absence of alcohol; there is little evidentiary support that alcohol causes perpetrators to lose control and act violently; there is no evidence to suggest a causal link between alcohol consumption and non-physically violent patterns of abuse such as economic control, intimidation and possessiveness that are often features of physically violent relationships; characteristics of perpetrators other than their alcohol consumption can better predict violent behaviour than their level or patterns of alcohol consumption. Ways forward are suggested for police. Environmental and strategic approaches include: involvement with the judicial system in the processing of substance-abusing perpetrators; police training on responding appropriately to perpetrators who blame their violence on alcohol and to victims who excuse violence because of alcohol; improved data collection; approaches to better understand the dynamics of family violence hotspots; approaches to better understand the density and serving practices of licensed premises and any role these have in patterns of family violence. Strategies to address the alcohol problems of perpetrators include: changes to the criminal justice system to require mandatory alcohol use assessments for all perpetrators of family violence; and development of specialised programmes to address an integrated approach to both the causal factors for family violence and alcohol misuse. | en |
| dc.date.entered | 2006-09-28 | en |
| dc.publisher.place | [Sydney] | en |
| dc.description.physicaldescription | 20 p. | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Reports | |
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