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Alcohol and other drugs are strongly associated with the occurrence of sexual violence. Although alcohol in particular is commonly associated with sexual offending, there has been little attention paid to the specific ways in which alcohol is utilised in offending, or to the social and cultural contexts in which alcohol-related offending occurs. This chapter considers the ways in which alcohol use was drawn on by perpetrators in facilitating offending, diminishing personal responsibility, or to maintain control. It also explores cultural attitudes towards alcohol consumption and intoxication within and across venues, the cultural linking of alcohol and sex, and the role that such attitudes may play in contributing towards the occurrence of unwanted sexual attention.

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Notes

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    For example, victims may have been served beverages with a larger volume of alcohol in them than they had expected. An example of this would include the addition of shots of spirits to a glass of beer.

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    I acknowledge here that alcohol itself is a drug. For the sake of linguistic variety, I occasionally use the phrase ‘alcohol and drugs’. This is not intended to imply that alcohol is not a drug in the same way that illicit and recreational drugs are.

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    No participants explicitly discussed perpetrators’ use of illicit or other recreational drugs to either stay in control or to diminish their responsibility, although these substances can also be used in this way.

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Fileborn, B. (2016). Drugs and Booze. In: Reclaiming the Night-Time Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58791-6_5

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