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Alcohol Policy Research


K
BS Alcohol and Violence thematic meeting
15-18 March, 2010

 

Program

Alcohol and violence in the night-time economy, and the policy response

Monday

15th March

9:00-10:30

Opening greetings: Robin Room + Todd Harper (VicHealth)

Chair: Robin Room

Title

Presenter

Discussant

Violence in the night-time economy: availability and amenity

Tanya Chikritzhs*, Wenbin Liang

Mark Bellis

Peter Miller, Anders Sønderlund, Darren Palmer

Michael Livingston

Kyp Kypri, Craig Jones, Patrick McElduff, Daniel Barker

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Chair: Mats Ramstedt

 

Heaviest drinking locations, quantity in drinking venues and the likelihood of fighting and being assaulted: Results from a reanalysis of the 2000 US National Alcohol Survey

Thomas K Greenfield, Yu Ye, Madhabika B. Nayak, Jason Bond,William C. Kerr & Karen Trocki

Samantha Wells

Ann Hope, Deirdre Mongan

A comparison of alcohol’s involvement in physical forms of child abuse and neglect

Anne-Maree Laslett

Norman Giesbrecht

Alcohol-related violence from the known drinker: A focus on social location using cluster analysis

Jason Ferris

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Chair: Nomonde Phetlho-Thekisho

 

Mark Bellis*, Karen Hughes

Peter Miller

Discussion Session

Alcohol and violence and the night time economy

Kate Graham

Jo Lindsay

Richard Felson

 

Finish Day 1

Aggregate and epidemiological studies

Tuesday

16th March

 

Title

Presenter

Discussant

9:00-10:30

Chair: Anne-Maree Laslett

 

Michael Livingston*

Thor Norström

Alcohol outlets and community levels of interpersonal violence: Spatial density, type of outlet, and seriousness of assault

William Alex Pridemore,* Tony H. Grubesic

Robert Nash Parker, Kirk R. Williams, Emily K. Acensio

Kyp Kypri

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00-12:30

Chair: Suwara Kaewnuy

 

Mats Ramstedt

William Pridemore

Alcohol consumption and violence in the Nordic countries

Esa Österberg

Thor Norström

Robert Parker

William Kerr, Yu Ye, Meenakshi Subbaraman

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Chair: Rogers Kasirye

 

 

 

Richard Felson, Jukka Savolainen, Thoroddur Bjarnason, Amy L. Anderson, Israt Zohra

Jennie Connor

Assessing and quantifying alcohol-related violence in the U.S: Comparing youth in an urban, disadvantaged community with nationally representative youth

Monica Swahn

Can violent behaviour be predicted from the alcohol consumption patterns of young people?

Carly Lightowlers

Sarah Roberts

Alcohol and aggression in Ontario: A comparison of general population surveys of 1997 and 2008

Samantha Wells, Norman Giesbrecht, Anca Ialomiteanu, Kathryn Graham

15:30-16:00

Afternoon tea

16:00-17:00

Chair: Prasantha de Silva

 

Alcohol and violence: The picture in Victoria

Belinda Lloyd, Monica Barratt

Kate Graham

VicHealth review of alcohol and interpersonal violence

John Fitzgerald

Tanya Chikritzhs

 

Finish Day 2

Alcohol and intimate and gendered violence

Wednesday 17th March

 

Title

Presenter

Discussant

9:00-10:30

Chair: Carly Lightowlers

 

Alcohol’s role in sexual violence Perpetration: Theoretical explanations, existing evidence, and directions for future research

Antonia Abbey*

Ross Homel

 

What can alcohol researchers learn from research about the relationship between macro-level gender equality and violence against women?

Sarah Roberts

Relation between intimate partner violence and alcohol consumption in Asia

Prasantha de Silva, Madhabika Nayak, Thomas K Greenfield

Myriam Munné

Controlling alcohol related violence; the need for alcohol control and policy

Mutaawe Rogers

10:45-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15-12:45

Chair: Jason Ferris

 

Intimate partner violence and alcohol in France: public policies, penal practices and science

Claudine Pérez-Diaz, Marie-Sylvie Huré

Antonia Abbey

Alcohol and sexual-related crimes in Thailand

Suwara Kaewnuy, Thaksaphon Thamarangsi

Marika Guggisberg

Belinda Lloyd

“Intimate Partner Violence and its Link with Depresion, Alcohol and Drug Consumption: An Epidemiological Study in Mexico."

Guillermina Natera, Francisco Juarez

12:45-14:15

Lunch

14:15-15:45

Chair: Thor Norström

 

Alcohol and intimate partner violence in Argentina

Myriam Munné*

Ann Hope

Nomonde Phetlho-Thekisho, Elma Ryke, Herman Strydom

Agression between intimate partners in New Zealand: gender differences and alcohol involvement

Jennie Connor

Jason Ferris

Gender as it relates to Alcohol consumption and violence in Uganda

Rogers Kasirye, Mbona Nazarious

15:45-16:15

Break

16:15-17:45

Can alcohol research contribute to reducing alcohol-related violence in Australian (and other) Indigenous communities?

Peter d’Abbs*

Jeff Hulcombe

Richard Chenhall

Discussion Session

Alcohol-related violence and indigenous worlds

Peter d’Abbs

Jeff Hulcombe

Richard Chenhall

 

Finish Day 3

Community and contextual Intervention studies

Thursday 18th March

 

Title

Presenter

Discussant

9:00-10:30

Chair: Monica Swahn

 

Developing an experimental design to improve knowledge about what works to maintain reductions in aggression in the licensed environment

Ross Homel, Gillian McIlwain

Tomas K Greenfield

Robert Nash Parker, Kevin McCaffree, Daniel Skiles

Combining research evidence, expert opinion and consumer views: A practical model for selecting community-based alcohol interventions

Anthony Shakeshaft*

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Chair: Anthony Shakeshaft

 

Kathryn Graham*, Sharon Bernards, Samantha Wells, D. Wayne Osgood, Antonia Abbey, Richard B. Felson, Robert F. Saltz

William Kerr

The trouble with alcohol: Observing, dodging or taking on violence

Jo Lindsay

Peter d’Abbs

 

Do the perceived effects of alcohol vary by situation? Young men’s perceptions for three typical provoking situations in the barroom

Samantha Wells, Kate Graham, Paul F. Tremblay, Jennie Reynolds

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Discussion Session

 

Preventing alcohol-related violence: promising policies and needed research

Led by Robin Room

 

Finish Day 4

 

(Alphabetical order by first and/or presenting author)

Abbey, A.
Alcohol's role in sexual violence perpetration: Theoretical explanations, existing evidence, and directions for future research

Bellis, M.
The cost of drunken debauchery without the barrom brawls

Chikritzhs, T.
Violence in the night-time economy: availability and amenity

Connor, J.
Aggression between intimate partners in New Zealand: gender differences and alcohol involvement

d'Abbs, P.
Can alcohol research contribute to reducing alcohol-related violence in Australian (and other) Indigenous communities?

DeSilva, P.
Relationship between intimate partner violence and alcohol consumption in Asia

Felson, R.
Alcohol and adolescent violence in 30 European countries

Ferris, J.
Alcohol-related violence from the known drinker: A focus on social location using cluster analysis

Giesbrecht, N.
Alcohol and aggression in Ontario: A comparison of General Population Surveys of 1997 and 2008

Graham, K.
Behavioral indicators of motives for barroom aggression: Implications for preventing bar violence

Greenfield, T.
Heaviest drinking locations, quantity in drinking venues and the likelihood of fighting and being assaulted: Results from a reanalysis of the 2000 US National Alcohol Survey

Guggisberg, M.
Female drinking and intimate partner violence: Examining the relationship between victimisation, perpetration and alcohol consumption

Homel, R.
Developing an experimental design to improve knowledge about what works to maintain reductions in aggression in the licensed environment

Hope, A.
A profile of alcohol related violence in Ireland

Kaewnuy, S.
Alcohol and sexual-related crimes in Thailand

Kasirye, R.
Gender as it relates to alcohol consumption and violence Uganda

Kerr, W.
Per capita alcohol consumption and suicide mortality in a panel of US states from 1950 to 2002

Kypri, K.
Effects of restricting pub closing times on night-time assaults in an Australian city

Laslett, A-M.
A comparison of alcohol’s involvement in different forms of violent child abuse (sexual, physical and emotional or psychological abuse) and neglect

Lightowlers, C.
Can violent behaviour be predicted from the alcohol consumption patterns of young people?

Lindsay, J.
The trouble with alcohol: Observing, dodging or taking on violence

Livingston, M.
Alcohol outlet density and harm: Comparing the impacts on violence and chronic harms

Miller, P.
The effect of community interventions targeting licensed venues on all alcohol-related emergency department attendances

Norström, T.
Alcohol and homicide in the USA – a state-panel analysis

Österberg, E.
Alcohol consumption and violence in the Nordic countries

Parker, R.
The impact of retail practices on violence: The case of single serve alcohol beverage containers

Parker, R.
The relationship between retail availability and youth homicide: Alcohol and youth violence in the 100 largest US cities 1984-2006

Pérez-Diaz, C.
Intimate partner violence and alcohol in France: Public policies, penal practices and science

Phetlho-Thekisho, N.
Gender differences in the relationship of drinking to violence

Pridemore, W.
Alcohol outlets and community levels of interpersonal violence: Spatial density, type of outlet, and seriousness of assault

Ramstedt, M.
Population drinking and homicide in Australia - a time series analysis of the period 1912-2006

Roberts, S.
What can alcohol researchers learn from research about the relationship between macro-level gender equality and violence against women?

Rogers, M.
Controlling alcohol related violence: The need for alcohol control & policy

Shakeshaft, A.
Combining research evidence, expert opinion and consumer views: A practical model for selecting community-based alcohol interventions

Wells, S.
Do the perceived effects of alcohol vary by situation? Young men’s perceptions for three typical provoking situations in the barroom

 

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