Do Changes to the Alcohol Retail Environment Reduce Interpersonal Violence?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

To summarize recent research on the alcohol retail environment (sales, policies, availability) and interpersonal violence (assault, intimate partner violence, sexual assault), including methods utilized, theoretical frameworks employed, and associations by types of alcohol environmental exposure and violence.

Recent findings

Studies continue to demonstrate that reducing alcohol availability directly and indirectly lowers rates of interpersonal violence. Many of the 30 studies used state-of-the-art analytic methods and study designs. Few studies examined heterogeneity by minoritized identities or between alcohol environments and violence by other contextual characteristics. There was a dearth of theoretical frameworks and mechanisms explicated.

Summary

SUBMITTER: Mair C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9672597 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature