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- Title
Reconsidering the Relationship Between Alcohol and Lethal Violence.
- Authors
Phillips, Scott; Matusko, Jacqueline; Tomasovic, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Prior event-based research regarding the relationship between alcohol and violence suffers from important limitations, including the absence of a comparison group, an inappropriate comparison group, or a comparison group that could be considered appropriate but does not control for potential confounders. To overcome such limitations, we use a matched pair design. Drawing on interviews with men imprisoned for an aggravated assault or homicide committed in response to a conflict with another man, we examine matched pairs of violent and nonviolent conflicts nested within respondents. The results suggest that guns mediate the relationship between alcohol and lethal male-male violence.
- Subjects
PAIRED comparisons (Mathematics); ALCOHOL drinking; BATTERING (Abuse); INTERVIEWING; RESPONDENTS; AGGRAVATED assault; FIREARMS; DEATH; CONFLICT of interests
- Publication
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007, Vol 22, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
0886-2605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0886260506294997