Alcohol-related crime and disorder across urban space and time: evidence from a British city

Bromley, Ray; Nelson, Amanda L.

doi:10.1016/s0016-7185(01)00038-0

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“…This increase has seen the intake of alcohol rise from 3 litres of pure alcohol per capita in the 1930s to 10 litres per capita in 2006 [35]. The increase in alcohol consumption has been linked to an increase in A&E admittance, anti-social behaviour within town centres [7], and a positive relationship to mortality -the majority of alcohol-related deaths across the world come from injury, liver cirrhosis, poisoning, and malignancy, which contributes to 4% of all fatalities per year [38,32,5].…”

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Towards tracking and analysing regional alcohol consumption patterns in the UK through the use of social media

Kershaw

Rowe

Stacey

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Web Science

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• Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. ABSTRACTMonitoring rates of alcohol consumption across the UK is a timely problem due to ever-increasing drinking levels [36]. This has led to calls from public services (e.g. police and health services) to assess the e↵ect it is having on people and society. Current research methods that are utilised to assess consumption patterns are costly, time consuming, and do not supply su ciently detailed results. This is because they look at snapshots of individuals' drinking patterns, which rely on generalised usage patterns, and post consumption recall. In this paper we look into the use of social media such as Twitter (a popular micro blogging site) to monitor the rate of alcohol consumption in regions across the UK by introducing the Social Media Alcohol Index (SMAI). By looking at the variation in term usage, and treating the social network as a spatio-temporal self-reporting sense-network, we aim to discover variation in drinking patterns on both local and national levels within the UK. This study used 31.6 million tweets collected over a 6 week period, and used the Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) weekly alcohol consumption pattern as a ground truth. High correlations between the ground truth and the computed SMAI (Social Media Alcohol Index) were found on a national and local level, along with the ability to detect variation in consumption on National holidays and celebrations at both local and national levels.

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Towards tracking and analysing regional alcohol consumption patterns in the UK through the use of social media

Kershaw

Rowe

Stacey

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Web Science

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“…In Ibiza, and perhaps for most British youth on holiday, identities are constructed that revolve around wasteful practices such as excessive drinking (Bataille 1967;Bromley and Nelson, 2002). This is indicative of societal organisation based on consumerism (Hannigan, 1998;Hayward, 2004;Hayward and Hobbs, 2007).…”

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“…Although centred on 'packaged fun', these NTEs are characterised by a high incidence of crime and disorder (Bromley and Nelson, 2002;Hobbs et al, 2005), thus burdening the operation of public agencies (Roberts, 2006). Commentators relate this to other important changes in youth culture in Britain over the past two decades which point to the emergence of a 'new culture of intoxication' (Measham and Brain, 2005) including weekend poly-drug use (the combining of various psychoactive substances in one session) and 'binge drinking' (Moore and Measham, 2008;Measham and Moore, 2009).…”

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Risk and transgression on holiday: 'new experiences' and the pied piper of excessive consumption

Briggs

Tutenges

2014

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BiographyDaniel is a researcher, writer and inter-disciplinary academic who studies social problems. For nearly fifteen years, he has undertaken a significant amount of funded mixed-methods and ethnographic research into various social issues from street drug users to terminally ill-patients; from illegal immigrants to football hooligans; and from gypsies to gangs and deviant youth behaviours. He has AbstractWhen British youth holiday abroad, they tend to engage in increased consumption of alcohol, drugs, violence and unprotected sex -collectively known as 'risk' behaviours. While numerous epidemiological studies have documented the extent of these risk behaviours in places like the Balearic islands, few have taken a phenomenological approach with the participants who go thereto find out how they experience and attribute meaning to their transgression on holiday. Our research reports on this matter and is based on ethnographic data collected in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively. We argue that individual and group holiday ambitions for a 'blow out' are actively complemented by aggressive commercial forces which seek to capitalise on consumer spending, thus assisting in the production of risk. We show how this works by reporting from the resort of San Antonio, Ibiza.Word count: 9,569 excluding references

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“…We selected functions where alcohol can be bought or functions that attract risk populations such as homeless people. Relevant characteristics of the functional, social and built environment were selected based on results of previous studies mentioned in the introduction (for example Bromley and Nelson 2002;Braga et al 1999;Cusimano et al 2010;Walker and Schuurman 2012).…”

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“…one that considers the contribution of a wider array of environmental factors. In Worcester (United Kingdom) patterns of alcohol-related crime and disorder in the city centre were associated with various characteristics of the functional environment, with higher rates along the key route ways towards residential areas and retail zones, and close to functional sites such as the railway station and the shopping centre (Bromley and Nelson 2002). Similar studies on hotspots of violent injuries identified environmental features such as a high number of bars, recreation facilities, transit nodes, high density housing, public restrooms and homeless shelters (Braga et al 1999;Cusimano et al 2010;Walker and Schuurman 2012).…”

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Environmental characteristics of hotspots of alcohol-related health incidents outside of the entertainment districts of Amsterdam

2017

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While hotspots of alcohol-related incidents have been associated with alcohol outlet density, few studies have considered other environmental factors. We aimed to characterise the environment of hotspots outside of outlet density areas in Amsterdam. Using geographical information systems, we identified hotspots of alcohol-related health incidents outside of outlet density areas based on the registry of alcohol related ambulance attendances. While quantitative data and methods were used to analyse victim profiles (including age, sex and home address) and temporal profiles (time of incident), we combined quantitative and qualitative information to develop environmental profiles of these hotspots. We identified 11 hotspots with 242 incidents outside outlet density areas. Results indicate substantial differences between incidents in these hotspots and incidents in high outlet density areas. Victims in these hotspots are older, more often male and live closer to the incident location compared to victims in high outlet density hotspots. Incidents are less likely to take place during the night and at weekends. In-depth analysis of four hotspots showed different combinations of contributing environmental factors, including (a) public parks bordering deprived neighbourhoods, (b) dance event facilities close to a traffic black spot, and (c) residential services for disadvantaged groups near 'hang-outs'. The study shows that hotspots of alcohol-related incidents can arise outside outlet density areas at locations where several other environmental factors cluster, particularly in more deprived areas. Such hotspots can be addressed in urban planning and urban design.

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Alcohol-related crime and disorder across urban space and time: evidence from a British city

Cited by 97 publications

References 33 publications

Towards tracking and analysing regional alcohol consumption patterns in the UK through the use of social media

Towards tracking and analysing regional alcohol consumption patterns in the UK through the use of social media

Risk and transgression on holiday: 'new experiences' and the pied piper of excessive consumption

Environmental characteristics of hotspots of alcohol-related health incidents outside of the entertainment districts of Amsterdam

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