Displacements of gender: Research on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy

Moore, David; Duncan, Duane; Keane, Helen; Ekendahl, Mats

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“…The gendered nature of the findings, particularly in relation to compliance, highlights the need for further research to identify and examine the different responses of male and female recipients. Despite extensive research exploring gendered behaviours in the NTE (Graham and Livingston 2012;Nicholls 2018;Tomsen 1997Tomsen , 2008, gender per se is rarely the focus of alcohol policy (Duncan et al 2020;Moore et al 2017Moore et al , 2020. Responses tend to be generic, targeting alcohol consumption, regulation and general control.…”

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“…For P1, the perceived lack of legitimacy removed any need for a change in behaviour: … no, it doesn't make me behave any differently. I'm just amazed that licensees can do this out of the blue … (P1 -Female) While these are individual reactions, they support a need to examine regulation and associated behaviours in the NTE through a gendered lens (Du Preez and Wadds 2016;Moore et al 2020;Nicholls 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Civilianised Summary Power to Exclude: Perceptual Deterrence, Compliance and Legitimacy

Farmer

2021

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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As a response to alcohol-related disorderly behaviours, the use of exclusion has expanded steadily across Australian jurisdictions but with minimal analysis of its effects. Bans, from public or private locations, are typically imposed summarily and presumed to be a meaningful deterrent to future problematic behaviours. The formalisation of licensee banning powers has created a civilianised police-enforceable power to punish by exclusion. In Victoria, the legislative framing of licensee barring order provisions precludes formal monitoring of their use. This article reports findings from interviews conducted with recipients. The conceptual and situational value of barring orders are acknowledged, but their capacity to act as a tangible deterrent or effective agent for behaviour change is far from conclusive. Barring orders constitute a civilianised summary power, which currently operates without scrutiny or accountability. Implications for the operational legitimacy of barring powers emerge from this study, in addition to broader considerations with respect to compliance, enforcement, oversight, and the importance of developing and examining alcohol policies through a gendered lens.

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Section: Perceived Legitimacy and Behavioural Effectsmentioning

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A Civilianised Summary Power to Exclude: Perceptual Deterrence, Compliance and Legitimacy

Farmer

2021

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…Indeed, none of the bills we studied address the fact that men are more likely to engage in some of the problematic behaviors being addressed, and there were no gender-specific measures in these bills. In this sense, a key |gendering practice” (Bacchi, 2017) of human rights processes is that it helps render gender as “invisible” (Moore, Duncan, Keane, & Ekendahl, 2020, p. 9). This is a puzzling result, especially with regards to phenomena such as violence.…”

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Enacting Safety and Omitting Gender: Australian Human Rights Scrutiny Processes Concerning Alcohol and Other Drug Laws

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Mulcahy

2021

Contemporary Drug Problems

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Global momentum for drug law reform is building. But how might such reform be achieved? Many argue that human rights offer a possible normative framework for guiding such reform. There has been very little research on whether human rights processes can actually achieve such aims, however. This paper responds to this knowledge gap. It explores how one human rights mechanism—the “parliamentary rights scrutiny process”—deals with alcohol and other drugs. We consider how four Australian parliaments scrutinized proposed new laws that would deal with alcohol and other drugs for their human rights “compatibility.” We find that laws that would limit the rights of people who use alcohol and other drugs were routinely seen as justifiable on the basis that alcohol and other drugs were inherently “unsafe.” Crucially, safety was conceptualized in a gender-neutral way, without regard to the potential role of gender, including specific masculinities, in the production of phenomena such as family violence and sexual violence and other public safety problems. Instead, such problems were regularly constituted as consequences, simply, of alcohol or other drug consumption. In making this argument, we build on the pioneering work of David Moore and colleagues (e.g., 2020). Their work asks important questions about how the causes of violence are constituted across different settings, including research and policy. Drawing on ideas from scholars such as Carol Bacchi and John Law, they identify “gendering practices” and “collateral realities” in research and policy on violence, in which the role of men and masculinities are routinely obscured, displaced or rendered invisible. We find similar problems underway within human rights law. In highlighting these gendering practices and collateral realities, we aim to draw attention to the limitations of some human rights processes and the need for more work in this area.

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“…Thus, for Steven and Justin, although men are at increased risk of perpetrating and being victim to violence, they do not need to be specifically named as a priority group, a hesitancy not evident in alcohol policy's apparent willingness to single out other groups such as pregnant women or older people (Moore et al, 2021). Instead, limiting trading hours or reducing availability through other means are presented as either implicitly targeting young men in night-time entertainment precincts (Steven, M, Australia) or as the only way to address an issue that is bigger than alcohol consumption alone (Justin, M, Canada).…”

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Noticed and then Forgotten: Gender in Alcohol Policy Stakeholder Responses to Alcohol and Violence

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In this article, we analyse interview data on how alcohol policy stakeholders in Australia, Canada and Sweden understand the relationship between men, masculinities, alcohol and violence. Using influential feminist scholarship on public policy and liberal political theory to analyse interviews with 42 alcohol policy stakeholders, we argue that while these stakeholders view men’s violence as a key issue for intervention, masculinities are backgrounded in proposed responses and men positioned as unamenable to intervention. Instead, policy stakeholders prioritise generic interventions understood to protect all from the harms of men’s drinking and violence without marking men for special attention. Shared across the data is a prioritisation of interventions that focus on harms recognised as relating to men’s drinking but apply equally to all people and, as such, avoid naming men and masculinities as central to alcohol-related violence. We argue that this process works to background the role of masculinities in violence, leaving men unmarked and many possible targeted responses unthinkable.

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Displacements of gender: Research on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy

Cited by 14 publications

References 61 publications

A Civilianised Summary Power to Exclude: Perceptual Deterrence, Compliance and Legitimacy

A Civilianised Summary Power to Exclude: Perceptual Deterrence, Compliance and Legitimacy

Enacting Safety and Omitting Gender: Australian Human Rights Scrutiny Processes Concerning Alcohol and Other Drug Laws

Noticed and then Forgotten: Gender in Alcohol Policy Stakeholder Responses to Alcohol and Violence

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