Alcohol regulation and crime
By: Christopher Carpenter, Carlos Dobkin
Contributors: Dobkin, Carlos; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15828; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15828.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  We provide a critical review of research in economics that has examined causal relationships between alcohol use and crime.  We lay out several causal pathways through which alcohol regulation and alcohol consumption may affect crime, including: direct pharmacological effects on aggression, reaction time, and motor impairment; excuse motivations; venues and social interactions; and victimization risk.  We focus our review on four main types of alcohol regulations: price/tax restrictions, age-based availability restrictions, spatial availability restrictions, and temporal availability restrictions.  We conclude that there is strong evidence that tax- and age-based restrictions on alcohol availability reduce crime, and we discuss implications for policy and practice"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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