Quick fixes aren't the answer, alcohol and violence have a complex relationship

摘要: The NSW Sentencing Council is considering proposals to change the laws designed address alcohol-related violence, including whether people who commit crimes while intoxicated should always be treated as more culpable when being sentenced. Like many attention-grabbing quick fixes society’s ills, this a really bad idea. If adopted, reform could lead even tougher sentences for committed by affected alcohol. Although it’s tempting think of such new problems requiring novel solutions, debates about relationship between alcohol and how it dealt with criminal laws, are anything but new. Australian researchers, politicians judges have been grappling these issues decades.