Reduction in Late‐Night Violence following the Introduction of National New Zealand Trading Hour Restrictions

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العنوان: Reduction in Late‐Night Violence following the Introduction of National New Zealand Trading Hour Restrictions
المؤلفون: Karl Parker, Taisia Huckle, Suzanne Mavoa, Sally Casswell
المصدر: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 44:722-728
بيانات النشر: Wiley, 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
مصطلحات موضوعية: Time Factors, Alcohol Drinking, Injury control, Accident prevention, 030508 substance abuse, Medicine (miscellaneous), Poison control, Violence, Toxicology, Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, trading hour restrictions, 03 medical and health sciences, Law Enforcement, 0302 clinical medicine, late-night assaults, Injury prevention, Humans, Crime Victims, alcohol, Alcoholic Beverages, off premise, Commerce, Human factors and ergonomics, Interrupted Time Series Analysis, Police, Telephone survey, Psychiatry and Mental health, Demographic economics, Business, on premise, 0305 other medical science, Licensure, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, New Zealand
الوصف: BACKGROUND: This study aimed to assess the early impact of national alcohol trading hour restrictions on nighttime violence in New Zealand. The new national maximum trading hour restrictions prohibited 24-hour trading by reducing hours to between 8 am and 4 am for on-premises and between 7 am and 11 pm for take-away outlets. METHODS: A telephone survey of alcohol outlets was undertaken to determine actual trading hours before the law change. Interrupted time-series analysis modeled weekly nighttime police calls for service for assault (i.e., between 9 pm and 6 am) and late-night police calls for service for assault (i.e., between 4 am and 6 am) from 2005 to 2015. Daytime police calls for service for assaults were used as the comparison group. Abrupt permanent changes and gradual permanent changes were assessed. RESULTS: The survey found that only 1% of alcohol shops, 9% of supermarkets, and 6% of bars/nightclubs were affected by the hour restrictions because they did not trade as long as their licensed hours permitted in the first place. The time-series analysis found no effect of the national trading hour restrictions on nighttime police calls for service for assaults. However, a significant gradual permanent decrease of 12.4% was found for late-night assaults between 4 am and 6 am (i.e., those likely related to the on-premises hour restriction). This equated to a weekly average decrease of 4.3 police calls for service for assaults between 4 am and 6 am following the law change. CONCLUSIONS: The national trading hour restrictions for on-premises and take-away outlets affected only a small proportion of premises, and no change in the overall level of nighttime violence was found following the restrictions. Late-night assaults likely related to on-premises, however, did reduce showing the likely effectiveness of trading hour restrictions even when the impact of the law change on the ground was minimal.
تدمد: 1530-0277
0145-6008
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2cc739445dcbf4839fc0336d4da3b5ab
https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14285
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....2cc739445dcbf4839fc0336d4da3b5ab
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE