Alcohol Use and Crime?

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This assignment will define alcohol and crime and discover whether there is a strong link between the use of alcohol and crime. Findings and statistics will also be used to present the Information. Laws and legislations put in place about the consumption of alcohol will also be presented including the pros and cons of alcohol along with a conclusion of my thoughts and beliefs in relation to the link between alcohol and crime. "Alcohol reduces our ability to think straight," says Professor McMurran, a psychologist at the University of Nottingham."It narrows our focus of attention and gives us tunnel vision."If someone provokes us while we're drunk, we don't take other factors into account, such as the consequences of rising to the bait. This can lead to violent reactions from people who would usually shrug things off." According to the oxford dictionary alcohol is a colorless volatile flammable liquid which is the intoxicating constituent of wine, beer, spirits, and other drinks, and is also used as an industrial solvent and as fuel ( oxford university press 2013). In Addition to this the national institute of alcohol abuse and alcoholism stated that Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior, and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination.
There is a perception that the use of alcohol usually results in negative consequences, such negativity can result in long term medical problems which may consist of strokes and liver diseases to short term and social problems such as behavior which is out of the norm and more significantly, crime. NCADD stated that about 3 million violent crimes...

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