Alcohol Excise Taxes

According to Community Guide rules of evidence, these results constitute strong evidence that raising alcohol excise taxes is an effective strategy for reducing excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. The impact of a potential tax increase is expected to be proportional to its magnitude and to be modified by such factors as disposable income and the demand elasticity for alcohol among various population groups. The reviewed studies provide consistent evidence that higher alcohol prices and alcohol taxes are associated with reductions in both excessive alcohol consumption and related, subsequent harms. Results were robust across different countries, time periods, study designs and analytic approaches, and outcomes. According to Community …show more content…
But there are some other factors apart from alcohol that contributes to violence for example stress, marijuana that gives a person more energy and make him/her violent especially is situation where alcohol is taken on top of that, different ideologies, poverty in the sense that those who are poor will have to cause violence when they want to still from the rich, it can be caused by environmental factors, social factors, economic factors and even political factors, so there are more factors that needs to be carefully examined by conducting a research to come out with the best answer of all the factors that contribute to this kind of violence rather than just banking on one issue.
The theories of crime offending clearly try as much as possible to explain the cause of crime causation which include but not limited to the following: environment, poverty, drugs, social influence by friends, political factors, social factors among other factors. So in order to address all theses, crime prevention theories assist so much by coming up with the possible ways of crime prevention by looking at ways of preventing environmental crimes, social crimes, economic crimes as well as political