@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol's role in domestic violence: a contributing cause or an excuse?",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum",
year="2002",
author="Leonard, Kenneth E.",
volume="106",
number="412",
pages="9-14",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: This paper reviews evidence regarding the deviance disavowal approach to alcohol-related violence. It focuses on whether alcohol intoxication is used to excuse domestic violence, and whether this can explain alcohol/violence association. METHOD: Four hypotheses derived from the deviance disavowal approach were identified, including (i) people accept alcohol as a cause of violence; (ii) people attribute less blame and punishment to intoxicated aggressors than to sober aggressors; (iii) the belief that alcohol causes or excuses violence should be associated with and predict the occurrence of alcohol-related domestic violence; and (iv) the administration of a placebo should increase aggressive behaviour. RESULTS: The review suggested that some people do accept alcohol as a cause of violence, but that alcohol does not appear to mitigate blame, and this belief is not longitudinally predictive of violence. CONCLUSION: The evidence for a deviance disavowal model of alcohol and domestic violence appears quite weak.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0065-1591",
doi="10.1034/j.1600-0447.106.s412.3.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0447.106.s412.3.x"
}