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Alcohol and Violence: The Nature of the Relationship and the Promise of Prevention

Alcohol and Violence: The Nature of the Relationship and the Promise of Prevention

Current price: $67.19
Publication Date: May 23rd, 2014
Publisher:
Lexington Books
ISBN:
9780739197738
Pages:
230
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Description

This book interrogates new contexts of the alcohol and violence relationship: victimization and injury, Mexican-American youth, elementary school children, advertising, and cross national comparisons. The authors examine real-world environmental prevention strategies are deployed towards harm reduction in the alcohol and violence framework.

About the Author

Robert Nash Parker is professor of sociology and director of the Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies at the University of California, Riverside. For most of the last two decades, Parker's research has been focused on the alcohol and violence relationship and on the development of and application to Social Science research of Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Statistical Models. Kevin J. McCaffree is a doctoral student at the University of California Riverside. He has thus far co-published an extensive, cross-cultural review of the literature on alcohol and human experience, along with two articles, co-authored with Robert Nash Parker, that have appeared in the journal, Drug and Alcohol Review.