Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the editor -- About the contributors -- Foreword / Kathryn Gaham -- Series editors' preface -- A. The extent of the problem -- The problem of alcohol-related violence : an epidemiological and public health perspective / Ingeborg Rossow and Elin K. Bye -- Alcohol and violence : an international perspective / Fernanda Cestaro Prado Cortez & Danilo A. Baltieri -- B. Understanding the problem -- Alcohol and aggression : theories and mechanisms / Peter R. Giancola -- Alcohol and violence in evolutionary perspective / Russil Durrant -- Alcohol and violence in developmental perspective / Rick Howard & Mary McMurran -- Prevention -- Alcohol-related violence as alcohol-related crime : policing, policy and the law / Gavin Dingwall -- Barroom approaches to prevention / Alasdair J.M. Forsyth -- Treatment -- Interventions with children and families / Donald Forrester & Georgia Glynn -- Treatments for offenders of intimate partner violence / Caroline J. Easton -- Alcohol arrest-referral / Katie McCracken & Franco Sassi -- Treatments for offenders in prison and the community / Mary McMurran -- Treatment for alcohol-related sexual violence / Ruth E. Mann & Mark Farmer -- Treatments for offenders with dual diagnosis / Amy Cohn & Kim T. Mueser -- Alcohol use and offending in people with intellectual disability / William R. Lindsay, Samantha Tinsley, & Medhat Emara -- Treatments for alcohol-related impaired driving / Thomas G. Brown & Marie Claude Ouimet -- E. Conclusion -- Alcohol-related violence : an end-note / Mary McMurran -- Index.