ALCOHOL AND CRIME

Alcohol and Crime

Alcohol and crime

Most studies on the relationship between alcohol and crime has concentrated on the immediate situational influences that drinking can have on the risk of commit a violent crime. Individual crimes were examined especially roads of fact and homicides, robberies and rapes receiving much less attention. We find the presence of a large proportion of consumers in almost all studies on the assault and homicide. In this regard, the Canadian studies have generally reported a lower level of offenders in a state of intoxication that studies U.S.: in Canada, 40 to 45% of perpetrators had consumed cons about 50 to 60% in U.S. studies the most representative. We find highest number of offenders while intoxicated in the Scandinavian countries (between 70% and 80%). These differences may be partly explained by the careful way in which we reported the presence of alcohol in these countries (Gyimah, 2010).

However, we must not neglect essential to understanding these differences: among other quantities usually consumed, the kind of places where consumption takes place, with whom she place, beliefs about the effects of alcohol, the extent to which opportunities to use are defined as "a time where everything is permitted", etc.. In the few studies relating to rape, alcohol plays a part more variable than in the case homicide and assault. Indeed, everything suggests that alcohol consumption is more frequently shared between offenders, victims and offenders in these types of crimes in the former. Some studies have reported on the presence of alcohol in crime without violence, but it is an area of ??research is not yet sufficiently developed and it is difficult to generalize estimates digital (Poikolainen, 2010).

In general, we can that alcohol is less often involved in non-violent offenses than in violent crimes. However, studies on offenses against property indicate that 40% or more offenders are consumers of alcohol consumed alcohol at the time of the crime. The studies show that prison disproportionate prisoners are abusing alcohol in their daily lives. We also commonly observed that a considerable proportion of victims of crime violence were drinking at the time of the incident. Analysis reports coronary indicate that victims of homicide who consumed alcohol at the time the crime were in most cases while drunk. This paper has focused in particular on descriptive studies, longitudinal studies and studies pre-and post-habituation related to consumption and substance abuse and crime. We made a special effort to find administrative reports and other reports not published on the subject, as well as ongoing studies in the field. We wrote personally to the researchers in this field to question them about their current research and results not yet published (Reid, 2010).

Crime patterns related to illicit alcohols are different from those of alcohol. Only in the case of cocaine that studies have found a report situational with crimes of violence. However, it must be said that a large proportion of crimes committed under the influence of an illegal alcohol were preceded by consumption ...