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Policing pubs: what happens to crime?
Author(s) -
BURNS LUCINDA,
FLAHERTY BRUCE,
IRELAND STEVE,
FRANCES MAUREEN
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1080/09595239500185501
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , police department , law enforcement , medicine , psychology , medical emergency , criminology , psychiatry , law , political science
The aim of this study was to test the effect of heightened police enforcement of the NSW Liquor and Registered Clubs Acts on overall criminal offences and, specifically, the number of assaults. Ten police patrols were included in the study. Five of these patrols were allocated to the experimental condition and five were allocated to the control condition. Beat police in the experimental controls conducted frequent but random visits to predesignated licensed premises over a 2‐month period. Police in the control patrols maintained their normal duties. Numbers of offences in the experimental and control patrols were then compared for 2 months before the intervention, for the 2‐month intervention phase and for 2 months post‐intervention. Results of the study indicated a significant increase in the number of offences in the experimental patrols during the intervention phase. Reasons for this increase are discussed.