Alcohol has a direct impact on certain crimes in South Africa. More about how it shapes the current quarter's crime stats here 👇
Arguments, misunderstanding, road rage and provocation were the leading causative factors for murder, accounting for 956 killings.Prof Charles Parry, director of the alcohol, tobacco and other drug research unit at the South African Medical Research, has previously said SA was lagging behind on alcohol regulation policies.Parry said it was a lot easier to address tobacco because there was much more of a consensus tobacco was harmful, “whereas with alcohol, there’s a lot of industry pressure”.
“I think there’s a lot of confusion about the harms of alcohol and we’re a country that we’re a wine producing country, we export a lot of alcohol.“None of the politicians at the moment – none of the ministers really – are committed to address alcohol in the same way.” Independent crime researcher David Bruce said chronic violence and crime showed society is “criminogenic” – meaning social conditions were conducive to
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