Product Description

The book combines quantitative analyses with qualitative reasoning to examine the processes that connect drinking and violence.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #485008 in Books
• Published on: 1991-09-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 279 pages

Review
'One can only hope that this level of vigorous thinking will be emulated.' - Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

'Pernanen's work is a contribution to the field and should be required reading for anyone interested in researching the relationship between alcohol and violence.' - Journal of Criminal Justice

'This is a major contribution to the study of alcohol and violence which will, I suspect, remain a standard work for many years.' - Addiction

Synopsis
The book combines quantitative analyses with qualitative reasoning to examine the processes that connect drinking and violence.

From the Back Cover
This important volume focuses on the extent and nature of everyday violence in society and its connections with the use of alcohol. Based on a unique multi-method study of violence and aggression in one community, it is the first to combine several methods of study to present a broad outline of a theory that would explain much of the everyday aggression and violence that occurs after drinking. This book will be of value to clinicians and researchers working in the area of alcohol abuse, and those who encounter societal violence or alcohol abuse in their work, as well as physicians, social workers, social psychologists, and those in law-related professions. Teachers and students in these areas will also find the book useful and informative.