/ 20 April 2022

The link between bottle shops and violence

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The NSW authority for liquor licences has commissioned new research to determine whether suburbs with lots of bottle shops have higher rates of domestic violence and whether there’s a link. The investigation to be undertaken by La Trobe University will also investigate whether adding new grog shops in lower socio-economic areas has a different effect than on wealthier suburbs. Philip Crawford from NSW’s Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority says pubs have become a lot better at dealing with violence on their premises, but “increasingly we are getting the feeling violence is something more pernicious in society, occurring in the home.” He said his state lacks the data to assess the potential downsides of easier access to alcohol. A previous report in 2016 about extended trading hours for liquor outlets found a “very small but statistically significant rise in domestic assaults”, but more info is being sought via this study.

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