Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 1997

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 1997

A framework for applying explanations of alcohol-related aggression to naturally occurring aggressive behavior.
December 22, 1997... In many fields the development of theories has followed extensive systematic observation of the phenomenon in its natural setting. In the area of alcohol and aggression, an extensive theoretical literature has developed with a fairly small...

Uses of "disinhibition" in the explanation of intoxicated behavior.
December 22, 1997... Conceptual clarification must be part of any research that attempts to explain regularities found in the empirical world. The need for greater conceptual clarity may not be immediately evident. In communicating about scientific facts we typically...

The intoxication defense and theories of criminal liability: a praxeological approach.
December 22, 1997... The specific objective of this article is to locate apparent and real inconsistencies in the criminal law governing the intoxication defense within a general framework that seeks to explain such variation in terms of differences in judicial...

Prevention and treatment of alcohol-related violence through prison programs: a Finnish perspective.
December 22, 1997... In many countries the majority of prisoners are substance abusers. For example, in a prisoner health study conducted in Finland in 1985, 44% of the convicts were diagnosed as alcoholics and 6% as drug abusers according to ICD criteria (Joukamaa,...

Marital violence and its relationship to excessive drinking in Mexico.
December 22, 1997... Alcohol-related family violence is a complex phenomenon involving a response to the context or the situation, characteristics of the people involved, such as predisposition to aggression, and the type and amount of alcohol consumed. In his review...

The effectiveness of community-based interventions to reduce violence in and anround licensed premises: a comparison of three Australian models.
December 22, 1997... In 1987 the Australian prime minister, the state premiers and the chief minister of the Northern Territory agreed to establish a National Committee on Violence following two mass firearms killings in Melbourne. These tragic events occurred...

Drug-Impaired Professionals.
December 22, 1997... Drug-Impaired Professionals, by Robert Holman Coombs (Cambridge, MA, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1997), 351 pp., $39.95 (cloth only). I. In America the issue of occupational vulnerability to alcohol- and other...

In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic.
December 22, 1997... In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic, by Timothy E. Donohue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 204 pp., $22.95 (cloth only). Timothy Donohue is not a "statistically typical" homeless alcoholic. He is a college graduate,...

Courtship, drinking and control: a qualitative analysis of women's and men's experiences.
December 22, 1997... This paper focuses on the control strategies of the men and women interviewed in dating situations. In particular, the differences between the control strategies employed by men and by women were examined, with a view to understanding the roots...