Increasing Support for Alcohol-Control Enforcement Through News Coverage of Alcohol’s Role in Injuries and Crime

• DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2012.73.311
• Publication Date: 2015-03-05T10:01:09Z
• Authors: Michael D. Slater; Andrew F Hayes; Catherine E. Goodall; David R. Ewoldsen
• Keywords: Unintended consequences; Drunk drivers

Prior research has shown that the proportion of news stories about violent crimes, car crashes, and other unintended injuries mention possible contributing role alcohol is far lower than actual alcohol-related crimes injuries. An experiment was conducted to test hypothesis inclusion such can increase concern risks support for alcohol-control measures, which have elsewhere been decrease problems in community settings. Methodologically, we provide a model experiments permitting generalization across randomly selected message stimuli.