Papers to note: Alcohol and Homicide in Australia

14/07/2009

Almost half of all Australian homicides between 2000 and 2006 were found to have involved the consumption of alcohol. Such deaths are likely to occur on a Saturday night and in the home of the victim. A paper released yesterday by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) showed that of the 1,565 homicides recorded over the six-year period, 746 (47 per cent) were classified as alcohol related and that in 60 percent of these incidents both the victim and offender had been consuming alcohol.

**14 July 2009 **