Do relaxed trading hours for bars and clubs mean more relaxed drinking ?A review of international research on the impacts of changes to permitted hours of drinking

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 153-170

  Stockwell, Tim ^a   Chikritzhs, Tanya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Licensing laws; Review; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149179326     PISSN: 14603780     EISSN: 17434629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/cpcs.2009.11     Document Type: Article

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