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Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Why a book about bar violence? -- Licensed premises as hot spots for violence - what is the evidence? -- Framing prevention of violence in and around drinking establishments -- The trend toward market deregulation -- 'Raising the bar' -- Glossary and explanation of terms -- 2 The culture of public drinking: normal trouble, violence and its prevention -- The heterogeneity of commercial drinking establishments

A recent study examining how outreach agencies respond to addictions problems among the elderly uncovered a general dilemma for potential case-finders, namely, the conflict between the worker's concern about the client's substance use and the clients right to privacy. This paper describes how the agencies surveyed were resolving the issue and offers some suggestions as to how the general dilemma can be addressed.

Do sex differences in drinking and leisure patterns vary across age and marital status groupings? Previous studies of drinking and leisure have ignored potential sex-age and sex-marital status interactions in their analyses. Using data from a Canadian national survey on alcohol (N=7,023), we addressed two issues: (1) the extent that leisure participation among current drinkers varies for each sex-age and sex-marital status group and (2) the extent that sex differences in alcohol consumed in various leisure settings are related to age and marital status? Analyses of variance results indicated that many sex differences in both leisure involvement and drinking-leisure patterns are dependent on age and marital status. The findings showed a convergence of lifestyle between men and women as they age on leisure patterns and, to a lesser extent, drinking in leisure settings. Convergence in both leisure and drinking occurred with marriage, with most change in behaviour shown by males.

Just fewer than 5 percent (369 out of 7,590) of all reported assaults in early modern Portsmouth, England, had male as well as female defendants. The majority of these fights (250) ranged spouses against their mutual enemies, but a significant minority also included other household members. These fights are also distinguished by having an unusually high percentage of male victims (58 percent, compared to 48 percent for the records as a whole). Although the presence of men emboldened women to confront people whom they might ordinarily evade, it also had a dampening effect on their level of violence, which was lower, as a rule, than it was for women who fought on their own or alongside other women.