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Risky alcohol use and violence against women: cause or consequence?

Event: 2025 Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference Date: 5 August 2025 Name of presenter: Don Weatherburn, University of New South Wales Title: Risky alcohol use and violence against women: cause or consequence? Previous studies of the relationship between risky alcohol use and violence against women have mostly been cross-sectional and limited in the range of controls for factors other than alcohol use that might influence the risk of violence against women. An exception is Smith and Weatherburn (2013), who conducted a fixed effect panel analysis using the HILDA survey but found no relationship between changes in risky drinking and changes in violence against women. Smith and Weatherburn (2013) only had eight waves of HILDA. The present study employs data from a cohort of 16,100 women across 21 waves of the HILDA survey (147,620 records) to determine whether there is a causal relationship between risky alcohol use and violence against women. We find strong evidence across a range of model specifications that risky drinking puts women at risk of experiencing physical violence.