Browsing Alcohol by Author "McMurran, Mary"
Now showing items 1-20 of 21
-
Alcohol and violence in developmental perspective
Howard, Richard C.; McMurran, Mary (2012)The purpose of this chapter is to describe the developmental risk factors that lead to an increased likelihood of adult alcohol-related violence. This is not a straightforward enterprise. In each individual case, a unique ... -
Alcohol-related violence defined by ultimate goals: A qualitative analysis of the features of three different types of violence by intoxicated young male offenders
McMurran, Mary; Jinks, Mary; Howells, Kevin; Howard, Richard C. (2010)Based upon a functional approach to understanding aggression, we aimed to identify the occurrence of and to describe the features of three types of alcohol-related violence defined a priori by ultimate goals: (1) violence ... -
Alcohol-related violence: An endnote
McMurran, Mary (2012)The purpose of this book is to draw together sound information to enlighten policy makers, professionals, and researchers about the theory and evidence that should underpin prevention and treatment approaches. While general ... -
Alcohol-related violence: Prevention and treatment
McMurran, Mary (2012)The strong association between alcohol consumption and violence is undeniable but complex and a large scientific literature has attempted to clarify the relationship between them. This comprehensive text goes farther than ... -
Individual-level interventions for alcohol-related violence: A rapid evidence assessment
McMurran, Mary (2012)BACKGROUND: Alcohol-related violence is of major concern to society. Around half of all violent crimes are alcohol related, and yet interventions for alcohol-related violence are under-developed. Often, offenders receive ... -
Individual-level interventions for alcohol-related violence: Expanding targets for inclusion in treatment programs
McMurran, Mary (2013)Purpose: Alcohol-related violence is a major public health problem, which can be tackled at a number of different levels, including societal, contextual, familial, social, and individual. The focus in this paper is on ... -
Interventions for alcohol-related offending by women: A systematic review
McMurran, Mary (2011)Treatment programmes specifically for women offenders are under-developed. A systematic review of studies that could inform interventions for alcohol-related offending by women is reported. Three questions were addressed: ... -
Investigation of a typology of alcohol-related violence defined by ultimate goals
McMurran, Mary; Jinks, Mary; Howells, Kevin; Howard, Richard C. (2011)Purpose. Alcohol-related violence is a serious problem and treatments for high-risk individuals need to be developed. Classification helps to route people into appropriate treatments. Drawing on animal research, we define ... -
Modularized psychotherapy with alcohol dependent men with previous violent behaviour within the family: The TAVIM-treatment programme
McMurran, Mary (2010)The TAVIM (Treatment of Alcoholic Violent Men)-programme is presented. This has been developed and applied with support by the European DAPHNE-programme. TAVIM ist a modularized therapy approach consisting of 10 group an ... -
Revising manualised treatment programmes: Incorporating practitioners' feedback
McMurran, Mary (2012)Purpose: Implementing treatment programmes with integrity requires a clear statement of what is to be done in treatment, and treatment manuals do this to a greater or lesser degree. In correctional work, many treatment ... -
Self-help manual interventions with youthful alcohol-related offenders
McMurran, Mary (1992)Male young offenders are heavy drinkers and many report a relationship between their drinking and offending, as well as other alcohol-related problems. Evidence that behavioural self-help manuals are effective in reducing ... -
Sex-related alcohol expectancies in rapists
McMurran, Mary; Bellfield, Helen (1993)Of 17 rapists in an English Special Hospital, nine said that they had committed their offence under the influence of alcohol. Subjects whose offences were alcohol related showed significantly higher levels of self-reported ... -
Strategies of self-control in male young offenders who have reduced their alcohol consumption without formal intervention
McMurran, Mary (1990)Fifty-one imprisoned male young offenders who reported having stopped or reduced their alcohol consumption without formal intervention were studied to discover which self-control strategies they used to help them change ... -
The alcohol-related aggression questionnaire
McMurran, Mary; Charlesworth, Philip (2006)Although alcohol-related violence is a common problem, there is wide variability amongst individuals in the extent to which they engage in alcohol-related violence. To assist with identification of individual differences, ... -
Towards guiding principles for effective intervention
McMurran, Mary (1994)Interventions aimed at modifying drinking are important for prisoners whose crimes are alcohol-related. These interventions should be designed with reference to current knowledge of what is effective, and recent meta-analyses ... -
Treating alcohol-related violence: A feasibility study of a randomized controlled trial in prisons
McMurran, Mary (2014)Purpose: There is a lack of good-quality outcome evaluations of interventions for offenders whose crimes are alcohol-related. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered gold standard in treatment evaluations. Here, ... -
Treating alcohol-related violence: Intermediate outcomes in a feasibility study for a randomized controlled trial in prisons
McMurran, Mary (2012)There is a lack of outcome evidence for alcohol interventions for offenders whose crime is alcohol related. In this study, the authors report the intermediate outcomes of a feasibility study for a randomized controlled ... -
Treatment of alcohol‐related violence: Integrating evidence from general violence and IPV treatment research
McMurran, Mary (2017)The article discusses the various treatments of alcohol-related violence. The article also presents some integrating evidence from general violence and IPV treatment research from various studies. Rigorous evaluations of ... -
Triggers for alcohol-related violence in young male offenders
McMurran, Mary (2012)Purpose. Improving the effectiveness of offender treatment programmes is important and one approach is to attend to their content. The aim here was to identify triggers to alcohol-related violence to inform the development ... -
Young offenders and alcohol-related crime: What interventions will address the issues?
McMurran, Mary (1991)Although most young offenders will grow out of both drinking and crime, interventions aimed at reducing crime through reducing drinking or reducing drinking so as to reduce health and social problems are important for some ...