AIC Conference Proceedings

No. 1: Alcohol and crime : proceedings of a conference held 4-6 April 1989

Julia Vernon (ed)
ISBN 0 642 14961 5 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1990

Abstract

The papers presented at this conference consider the relationship between alcohol use and criminal behaviour. The links between alcohol use and crime; drink driving; policing problems; under age drinking; alcohol and domestic violence; Aboriginal drinking; corrective programs and legislative issues are discussed.

Contents

• Opening address
  David Malcolm
• Sources of confusion in the alcohol and crime debate
  Don Weatherburn
• Prisoners' experience with alcohol
  David Indermaur
• At court : the alcohol factor
  Jeff Giddings
• Alcohol, violent crime and social power
  Stephen Tomsen
• Domestic violence : alcohol and other distractions : a grassroots perspective
  Heather McGregor
• Crime on the roads : drinking and driving
  Ross Homel
• Drinkers and their driving : compliance with drink-driving legislation in four Australian States
  Wendy Loxley, Ross Homel, Dale Berger, and John Snortum
• The young, delinquency, drink and driving
  Mary Sheehan and J Nucifora
• Changing drinking and driving patterns : a case history
  David South
• Restricted areas and Aboriginal drinking
  Peter D'Abbs
• Alcohol use and its effects upon Aboriginal women
  Maggie Brady
• Alcohol, the law and police discretion
  Thomas Clews
• Decriminalisation of drunkenness
  Jonathan Tuncks
• Positive programs for convicted offenders
  Bob Johnstone
• Alcohol education program
  Nick Papandreou
• Helping those imprisoned for alcohol related crimes
  Susan Hayes and John Carmody
• Juvenile alcohol consumption a cause for concern : a proposal to turn concern into action
  Steve Ireland
• Tackling excessive drinking or reducing excessive supply
  Andrea Shoebridge
• Effectiveness of legislative and fiscal restrictions in reducing alcohol related crime and traffic accidents
  Ian Smith
• Alcohol legislation : the industry's view
  Gordon Broderick
• An overview : the issues and the National Alcohol Policy
  Geoff Elvy