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Alcohol influenced crimeResearch from Australia and overseas suggests there is a strong association betweenalcohol and violence, crime and anti-social behaviour (Smith 1983 and AIC 1990).One study conducted by the NSW and Queensland police services found that highproportions of street offences (for example, offensive behaviour), assault, maliciousdamage, domestic violence and noise complaints were related to alcohol use(Ireland 1993).In a report on the drug and alcohol use and criminal behaviour of 371 juveniles aged10 to 17 years who were in detention centres in all Australian jurisdictions in2003-04, Richard and Payne (2005) found that:• at the time of their last offence, 46 per cent of these juvenile offenders wereunder the influence of alcohol• compared with non-regular offenders, regular violent and regular propertyoffenders were three times more likely to be regular users of alcohol.An analysis of data from the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) programin 2004 showed that, among police detainees in seven urban police stations orwatch-houses in NSW, Queensland, WA and SA, there was a more pronouncedassociation between alcohol and offending among Indigenous male offenders thantheir non-Indigenous counterparts (Putt, Payne and Miller 2005).Box 8.1.2 provides examples of how alcohol related crime and violence is beingaddressed in some communities.There are no reliable data on the overall extent of alcohol related crime. This sectionexamines alcohol related homicides.Data sourced from the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) NationalHomicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) only include alcohol related homicides andno information on offences that do not result in the death of the victim. Otherlimitations of the NHMP data are discussed in appendix 3.SUBSTANCE USE ANDMISUSE8.13

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