Selling alcohol to underage adolescents in Romania: Compliance with age restrictions in Pitesti

Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-91

  van Hoof, Joris J ^a   Moll, Marit ^b   Constantinescu, Maria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy   (Netherlands)

^c University of Pite ti   (Romania)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Alcohol consumption; Mystery shopping; Private drinking places; Risk behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956031452     PISSN: 15833410     EISSN: 15845397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Britt, H., Toomey, T.L., Dunsmuir, W. and Wagenaar, A., 2006, Propensity for and correlates of alcohol sales to underage youth, Journal of alcohol and drug education, 50, pp. 25-42.
2. Brown, S., Tapert, S.F., Granholm, E., and Delis, D.C., 2000, Neurocognitive functioning of adolescents: effects of protracted alcohol use. Alcoholism, Clinical and experimental research, 24, pp. 167-171.
3. Cassell, J., 1980, Ethical principles for conducting fieldwork, American anthropologist, 83, pp. 28-41.
4. Constantinescu, M., 2004, Sociology of family, E.U. P., Piteţti.
5. Constantinescu, M., 2008, Emotions and selflessness behaviour, Scientific journal, social and humanistic sciences series, 1 (19), E.U.P., pp. 17-24.
6. Constantinescu, M., 2008, Human development and social work, E.U. P, Piteţti
7. Dawson, D.A., Grant B.F. and Li, T., 2006, Impact of age at first drink on stress-reactive drinking. Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research, 31(1), pp. 69-77.
8. Dench, S., Iphofen, R. and Huws, U., 2004, An EU Code of Ethics for Socio- Economic Research. IES Report 412. Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies.
9. Denzin, N.K. and Erikson, K.T., 1982, On the ethics of disguised observation: An exchange, in Bulmer, M (ed), Social research ethics: An examination of the merits of covert participant observation, Macmillan, London, pp. 142-51.
10. Ellickson, P.L., Tucker, J.S. and Klein, D.J., 2003, Ten-year prospective study of public health problems associated with early drinking, Pediatrics 111(5), pp. 949-955.
11. Finn, A. and Kayande, U., 1999, Unmasking a phantom: A psychometric assessment of mystery shopping, Journal of retailing, 75, pp. 195-217.
12. Freisthler, B., Greunewald, P.J., Treno, A.J. and Lee, J., 2003, Evaluating alcohol access and the alcohol environment in neighbourhood areas, Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research, 27, pp. 477-84.
13. Gosselt, J.F., Van Hoof, J.J., De Jong, M.D.T. and Prinsen, S., 2007, Mystery shopping and alcohol sales: Do supermarkets and liquor stores sell alcohol to underage customers?, Journal of adolescent health, 41(3), pp. 302-308.
14. Grant, B.F. and Dawson, D.A., 1997, Age at onset of alcohol use and its association with DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence: Results from the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey, Journal of substance abuse, 9, pp. 103-l 10.
15. Grant, B.F., Dtinson, F.S. and Harford, T.C., 2001, Age at onset of alcohol use and DSMIV alcohol abuse and dependence: A 12-year follow-up, Journal of substance abuse, 13(4), pp. 493-504.
16. Hibell, B., Andersson, B., Ahlström, S., Balakireva, O., Bjarnason, T., Kokkevi, A. and Morgan, M., 2000, The 1999 ESPAD Report. Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among Students in 30 European Countries. The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN) and The Pompidou Group at the Council of Europe. Stockholm: Sweden.
17. Hibell, B., Andersson, B., Bjarnason, T., Ahlström, S., Balakireva, O., Kokkeve, A., and Morgan, M., 2004, The ESPAD Report 2003: Alcohol and other drug use among students in 35 European countries. Stockholm: The Swedisch Council forInformation on Alcohol and Other Drugs and the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe.
18. Hodges, L.W., 1988, Undercover, masquerading, surreptitious taping, Journal of mass media ethics, 3, pp. 26 -36.
19. Holder, H., 1998, Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
20. Johnston, L., O'Malley, P.M., Bachman, J.G. and Schulenberg, J.E., 2006, Monitoring the future national results on adolescent drug use: Overview of key findings, 2005, Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
21. Lotreanu, L., Ionut, C., Mesters, I., De Vries, H., 2009, Factors associated with smoking among Romanian senior high school students, in Revista de cercetare ţi interveneţie socialǎ, vol. 25, pp. 83-100.
22. Luck, J. and Peabody, J.W., 2002, Using standardised patients to measure physicians' practice: Validation study using audio recordings, British medical journal, 325, pp. 679-682.
23. Macdonald, S., Cherpitel, C.J., Borges, G., DeSouza, A., Giesbrecht, N. and Stockwell, T., 2005, The criteria for causation of alcohol in violent injuries based on emergency room data from six countries, Addictive behaviours, 30(1), pp. 103-113.
24. Madden, J., Quick, J.D., Ross-Degnan, D. and Kaffle, K.K., 1997, Undercover careseekers: Simulated clients to study the health provider behaviour in developing countries, Social science & medicine, 45, pp. 1465-1482.
25. Preusser, D.F., Williams, A.F. and Weinstein, H.B., 1994, Policing underage alcohol sales, Journal of safety research, 25, pp. 127-133.
26. Preusser, D.F. and Williams, A.F., 1992, Sales of alcohol to underage purchasers in three New York counties and Washington D.C., Journal of public health policy, 13, pp. 306 -317.
27. Reynolds, R.I., 2003, Building Confidence in Our Communities, London.
28. Sindelar, H.A., Barnett, N.P. and Spirito, A., 2004, Adolescent Alcohol Use and Injury. A Summary and Critical Review of the Literature, Minerva pediatric, 56, pp. 291-309.
29. Tapert, S.F., Cheung, E.H., Brown, G.G., Frank, L.R., Paulus, M.P., Schweinsburg, A.D., Meloy, M.J. and Brown, S.A., 2003, Neural Response to Alcohol Stimuli in Adolescents With Alcohol Use Disorder, Archives of General Psychiatry, 60(7), pp. 727-735.
30. Van der Laar, M.W., Cruts, A.A.N., Verdurmen, J.E.E., Van Ooyen-Houben, M.M.J. and Meijer, R.F. (Eds), 2007, Annual Report NDM Netherlands National Drug Monitor, Trimbos Institute: Utrecht.
31. Van Hoof, J.J., Mulder, J., Gosselt J.F., Van Poppel, D. and De Jong, M.D.T., 2007, Alcoholverstrekking aan jongeren onder de 16 jaar in Katwijk, Leiden: Universiteit Twente, Faculteit Gedragswetenschappen/STAP Stichting Alcoholpreventie.
32. Van Hoof, J.J., Poppel, D van, Mulder, J and Baas, N., 2008, Alcohol en jongeren in Amersfoort Beleidsinventarisatie gemeente Amersfoort. Enschede: STAP Stichting Alcoholpreventie en Universiteit Twente Faculteit Gedragswetenschappen.
33. Wagenaar, A.C., Toomey, T.L. and Erickson, D.J., 2005, Preventing youth access to alcohol: Outcomes from a multi-community time series trial, Addiction, 100, 335-345.
34. Warner, L.A., and White, H.R., 2003, Longitudinal effects of age at onset and first drinking situations on problem drinking, Substance use and misuse, 38(14), pp. 1983-2016.
35. Willner, P., Hart, K., Binmore, J., Cavendish, M. and Dunphy, E., 2000, Alcohol sales to underage adolescents: An unobtrusive observational field study and evaluation of a police intervention, Addiction, 95, pp. 1373-1388.
36. Wilson, A.M., 2001, Mystery shopping: Using deception to measure service performance, Psychology and marketing, 18, pp. 721-734.
37. Wolfson, M., Toomey, T.L., Murray, D.M., Forster, J.L., Short, B.J. and Wagenaar, A.C., 1996, Alcohol outlet policies and practices concerning sales to underage people, Addiction, 9, pp. 598-602.