NCJ Number
181097
Date Published
1999
Length
42 pages
Annotation
This study focuses on the effects of variations in State alcoholic beverage prices on college campus violence.
Abstract
The study tested the hypothesis that the incidence of violence is negatively related to the price of alcohol. This hypothesis was derived from two well established relationships: the positive relationship between alcohol and violence and the negative relationship between the use of alcohol and its price. Data used in the study were the 1989, 1990 and 1991 Core Alcohol and Drug Surveys of College Students. They contained almost 120,000 college students from approximately 200 colleges and universities throughout the United States and included measures of alcohol use and the adverse consequences of its use. Adverse consequences included the following indicators of violence: getting in trouble with the police, residence hall or other college authorities; damaging property or pulling a fire alarm; getting into an argument or a fight; and taking sexual advantage of another person or having been taken advantage of sexually. The incidence of each of these four acts of violence was inversely related to the price of beer in the State in which the student attended college. References, notes, tables