What the COVID-19 Pandemic Taught Us about Violence Associated with Alcohol Consumption
摘要
In the UK, COVID-19 restrictions significantly altered alcohol availability, with periods in which access to on-trade premises was limited or closed off entirely, and saw drinking broadly confined to the home. The impact of these restrictions on young people’s alcohol drinking have been studied. Yet, few have considered how these changes in drinking impact upon trends in alcohol-related violence, including domestic violence. This chapter explores evidence about the alcohol–violence relationship, including insights gleaned before, during, and after the pandemic, to challenge the assumption that the alcohol-related violence problem is wholly driven by young people, on-licensed premises and the NTE in which they cluster.