Relationships between minimumalcohol pricing and crime during the partial privatization of a canadian government alcohol monopoly

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 628-634

  Stockwell, Tim ^a,b   Zhao, Jinhui ^a   Marzell, Miesha ^c   Gruenewald, Paul J ^d   Macdonald, Scott ^a,b   Ponicki, William R ^d   Martin, Gina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; CANADA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST; CRIME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CRIME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PRIVATIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84939129969     PISSN: 19371888     EISSN: 19384114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2015.76.628     Document Type: Article

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