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The impact of liquor restrictions on serious assaults across Queensland, Australia
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posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by Nicholas TaylorNicholas Taylor, Kerri CoomberKerri Coomber, Richelle MayshakRichelle Mayshak, R Zahnow, J Ferris, Peter MillerPeter Miller© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Aims: This study aimed to explore the relationship between a 00:00 liquor restriction, introduced on 1 July 2016, and alcohol-related harm by examining its impact on serious assault numbers during high-alcohol hours (8:00–18:00 Friday and Saturday night), from 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2018. Methods: Two types of locations only impacted by the liquor restriction were identified: designated safe night precincts (SNPs) and other local government areas (LGAs). A times series autoregressive integrated moving average analysis was used to estimate the influence of liquor restrictions on police-recorded serious assaults in the two years following the policy introduction, for SNPs and LGAs separately. Results: Contrarily to our predictions, monthly police-recorded serious assaults did not significantly change within SNPs or LGAs following the introduction of liquor restrictions. Conclusion: The implementation of the Queensland liquor restriction did not result in a clear, unique reduction in serious assault trends. Further investigation should consider the impact of liquor restrictions in conjunction with other policy changes as public perception of restrictions and their cumulative impact may produce varied outcomes.
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthVolume
16Issue
22Article number
4362Pagination
1 - 10Publisher
MDPILocation
Basel, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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1661-7827eISSN
1660-4601Language
engPublication classification
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