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Conference Papers

Domestic violence : alcohol and other distractions : a grassroots perspective

Heather McGregor

Published in:
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
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 1)

Abstract

McGregor argues that domestic violence is a crime and must be responded to as a crime if social change is to occur. She believes that domestic violence is not caused by alcohol and the popular social construction of violence being caused by, or associated with, alcohol is a dangerous construction, which distorts far more than it clarifies and hides far more than it reveals. She draws her knowledge from information, experiences and wisdom gained from listening to victims of violence.