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The genesis of alcohol-related interpersonal aggression has been attributed to many factors. Various approaches have contended that such behavior is one of society’s children (a result of socio-economic pressures), or that interpersonal aggression is the result of biochemical processes of the organism which are affected by ethanol, or that acts of aggression when drinking are committed by sociopaths who would act aggressively whether drinking or not. Ideas which contributed to these approaches have appeared in written history as far back as the Code of Hammurabi and the Bible (Mandelbaum, 1965), popular literature (such as Shakespeare and current fiction), the literature of the Temperance Movement (Stewart, 1888; Chenery, 1889), as well as from research literature on human behavior and the effects of alcohol consumption. All of these approaches have shared the assumption that the causal relationship of events leading to alcohol-related interpersonal aggression emanates from one aspect of human functioning.
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Boyatzis, R.E. (1977). Alcohol and Interpersonal Aggression. In: Gross, M.M. (eds) Alcohol Intoxication and Withdrawal—IIIb. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 85B. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9038-5_23
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