- Title
- Towards the implementation of a problem-oriented policing approach to reducing alcohol-related harm associated with licensed premises: challenges and opportunities.
- Creator
- Hacker, Andrew
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- Alcoholic intoxication is associated with acute, injurious harm and evidence suggests that licensed premises are a setting associated with both intoxication and alcohol-related injuries. Evaluations of strategies to reduce alcohol-related harm associated with licensed premises suggest that enhanced policing is a key element of effectiveness. One recommended approach to enhancing the policing of licensed premises is that of problem-oriented policing. However, the implementation of problem-oriented policing faces several challenges, including: a) a suggested need to invest in explicit organisational change strategies to achieve implementation but limited evidence regarding the effectiveness of such strategies; b) limited capacity of police organisations to undertake the level of analysis required to adopt a problem-oriented approach to reducing alcohol-related harm; c) limited evidence regarding the range of strategies police currently apply to licensed premises and; d) limited evidence regarding the effectiveness of problem-oriented policing in reducing harm associated with licensed premises in particular, despite growing evidence for the effectiveness of the approach in general. Given suggestions that adopting a problem-oriented approach to policing licensed premises may reduce alcohol-related harm, and the challenges to its adoption described above, the studies presented in this thesis aimed to: 1) assess current practices regarding the policing of licensed premises by those primarily responsible for such policing in New South Wales, Australia; 2) evaluate the effectiveness of an organisational change intervention in enhancing police recording of alcohol-related information; 3) determine the types of policing strategies applied to licensed premises associated with alcohol-related harm, and the relationship between levels of alcohol-related harm associated with individual premises and the application of various policing strategies and; 4) assess the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of a problem-oriented policing approach to reducing alcohol-related harms associated with licensed premises.
- Subject
- problem-oriented policing; alcohol-related harm; organisational change; alcohol; policing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1040021
- Identifier
- uon:13734
- Rights
- Copyright 2014 Andrew Hacker
- Language
- eng
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