Individual‐level interventions for alcohol‐related violence: A rapid evidence assessment

McMurran, Mary

doi:10.1002/cbm.821

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“…There are, however, surprisingly few interventions designed specifically to address alcohol use, violence, and the relationship between them. In a systematic review, McMurran (2010) identified only three interventions tackling alcohol‐related violence: Alcohol‐Free Good Lives (Ministry of Justice, 2010), Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers (COVAID; McMurran, 2007), and SafERteens (Walton et al , 2010). Of these three programmes, only COVAID and SafERteens have been described in the research literature.…”

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Triggers for alcohol‐related violence in young male offenders

McMurran

Hoyte

Jinks

2011

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose. Improving the effectiveness of offender treatment programmes is important and one approach is to attend to their content. The aim here was to identify triggers to alcohol-related violence to inform the development of programmes to treat this problem. Method.Information from 149 young male offenders' accounts of incidents of alcohol-related violence was studied using thematic analysis.Results. Sixteen triggers for violence were identified and these were organized into six themes: (1) being offended by someone, (2) seeing an opportunity for material gain, (3) seeing others in need of help, (4) perception of threat, (5) distress, and (6) wanting a fight.Discussion. The implications of the results for developing treatments for alcoholrelated violence are presented. First, identifying triggers should be part of the treatment programme and ways of avoiding triggers should be addressed. Second, changing values, specifically hypermasculine and antisocial values, could attenuate the rewards signalled by the triggers. Third, methods of reducing the potency of triggers would be of value and would include addressing issues of need for respect and responses to perceived disrespect. Fourth, non-violent ways of helping people who are in trouble need to be introduced. Fifth, coping with threat cues through distraction and increasing self-awareness would reduce the effects of 'alcohol myopia'. Sixth, seeking fights for excitement could be reduced by examining the costs through motivational procedures. Finally, and self-evidently, a primary target of treatment programmes to reduce alcoholrelated violence should be to reduce the level and frequency of alcohol intoxication.

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Triggers for alcohol‐related violence in young male offenders

McMurran

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Jinks

2011

Legal Criminol Psychol

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“…There are few programmes specifically for offenders with alcohol problems and fewer still specifically for alcohol‐related offending (Fitzpatrick & Thorne, 2010; Ministry of Justice, 2010). Outcome research on programmes for alcohol‐related violence is sparse and of poor quality (McMurran, 2011). This is an area that is undoubtedly in need of development and it is hoped that the material presented in this paper might serve to promote developments.…”

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Anxiety, alcohol intoxication, and aggression

McMurran

2011

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Purpose. Research into alcohol‐related aggression has typically focused on perpetrators’ externalizing characteristics. The purpose of this exploratory review is to examine the contribution of anxiety to alcohol‐related aggression. Arguments. Anxiety disorders are associated with externalizing disorders in childhood, but anxiety appears to protect against extreme antisocial behaviours. In contrast, in adolescence and early adulthood, anxiety appears to be associated with increased risk of antisocial behaviour. One possible explanation for this disjunction may be alcohol use, which typically starts in adolescence. Alcohol is an anxiolytic drug, which may appeal to certain young people who are socially anxious but not socially avoidant. Alcohol myopia, the cognitive mechanism whereby alcohol exerts an anxiolytic effect, is also a mechanism by which alcohol serves to increase aggression. Therefore, in anxious antisocial people, drinking to cope with anxiety is likely to increase aggression. Conclusions. Interventions that flow from the research on anxiety, alcohol, and aggression are suggested.

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“…While individual-level interventions that reduce alcohol-related crime are important, these are seriously under-provided and under-developed (McMurran, 2012). In a recent thematic report on alcohol services in prisons in England and Wales, the then Chief Inspector of Prisons commented on the lack of provision as a 'depressing picture' (HM Inspectorate of Prisons, 2010).…”

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