Are The Lockout Law Working
In the early hours of New Year’s day, 2013, a young man by the name of Daniel Christie was king hit and assaulted in the nitrous Kings Cross nightlife precinct; Daniel dies in intensive care as a result of his injuries 11 days later. This incident added to an already large statistic of alcohol-related assaults, which caused the wider Sydney community to call for harsher regulation of licensed premises, specifically in the nitrous Kings Cross nightlife district and the wider Sydney Central Business District (CBD) (Roth, 2014). In response to community outrage in early 2014 the New South Wales (NSW) State Government announced new restrictions and regulations to be introduced into licensed premises to the aim of this was to reduce alcohol-related violence, these new regulations took effect on the 24th of February. Our aim of this argument in to address the question, did the lockout laws work? Hence, to answer this we must gather data from two key areas (1) Have the lockout laws reduced alcohol-related violence in the King's Cross and Sydney CBD nightlife Precincts? (2) Has alcohol-related violence increased in other nearby areas close to Kings Cross Precinct or in nightlife precincts that are further, however, still easily reachable? …show more content…
This argument will only reference alcohol related crime statistics sourced from the kings cross, Sydney CBD, Pyrmont and New Town areas. In addition, the data does not state if the assault was a domestic or nondomestic alcohol-fueled assault, hence as this data cannot be obtained this report will assume all assaults take place in or outside licensed premises. Thus, this will allow the report to have a broader spectrum of data but still narrowed down to alcohol-related
In the early hours of New Year’s day, 2013, a young man by the name of Daniel Christie was king hit and assaulted in the nitrous Kings Cross nightlife precinct; Daniel dies in intensive care as a result of his injuries 11 days later. This incident added to an already large statistic of alcohol-related assaults, which caused the wider Sydney community to call for harsher regulation of licensed premises, specifically in the nitrous Kings Cross nightlife district and the wider Sydney Central Business District (CBD) (Roth, 2014). In response to community outrage in early 2014 the New South Wales (NSW) State Government announced new restrictions and regulations to be introduced into licensed premises to the aim of this was to reduce alcohol-related violence, these new regulations took effect on the 24th of February. Our aim of this argument in to address the question, did the lockout laws work? Hence, to answer this we must gather data from two key areas (1) Have the lockout laws reduced alcohol-related violence in the King's Cross and Sydney CBD nightlife Precincts? (2) Has alcohol-related violence increased in other nearby areas close to Kings Cross Precinct or in nightlife precincts that are further, however, still easily reachable? …show more content…
This argument will only reference alcohol related crime statistics sourced from the kings cross, Sydney CBD, Pyrmont and New Town areas. In addition, the data does not state if the assault was a domestic or nondomestic alcohol-fueled assault, hence as this data cannot be obtained this report will assume all assaults take place in or outside licensed premises. Thus, this will allow the report to have a broader spectrum of data but still narrowed down to alcohol-related