ence to go through with much more immoral or deviant acts of a criminal nature, there's no doubt that alcohol is a drug of confidence.
             Physical violence, including domestic violence and abuse (including child abuse) as well as assault and homicide, are crimes that commonly blame alcohol as a trigger or a cause. However results have proven that other factors such as unemployment, stress, depression, relationships and childhood upbringing need to taken into consideration as well.
             Physical violence however can be divided into three primary categories, these being domestic violence, public violence and homicide.
             Approximately one in ten New Zealand children live in a house with someone who has a serious drinking problem and out of that one in ten, 30% of the children claimed that person had behaved violently towards them personally in the past 12 months (Ashworth 1996).
             In a publication on 'Alcohol and its Effects' by Kirsten Lamb she notes that in New Zealand 40% of domestic violence is alcohol induced and explains that the key reason for this is because, lower socio-economic families or families with a family member whose a serious alcoholic, spend so much money on alcohol that they have little money left to buy their children the necessities they require, consequently the stress of not being able to afford these things is released with violence commonly taken out on the children of the household. Lamb annotates that the children are blamed by the parents simply for the reason that "If the children weren't there, then the problem and the stress wouldn't be there either" (Lamb 1991 - NZ).
             In most domestic violence cases it's commonly the male of the house assaulting a female. A 1988 National Survey of Alcohol Consumption saw that 82% of domestically assaulted women reported that their male offender had been drinking (www.aphru.ac.nz/nat/violence.htm). New Zealand promotes Women's saf...