{"id":2058,"date":"2009-07-17T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:41:12","slug":"uk-girls-indulge-in-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/uk-girls-indulge-in-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Girls Indulge in Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Summary<\/strong>British girls are among the most violent in the world, and binge drinking may be to blame, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Jan. 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A World Health Organization study found that about one in three U.K. girls said they had been in a fight during the previous year, compared to a worldwide average of 23 percent. The highest rate of female violence was found in Hungary, where 32 percent of girls said they had been in a fight; the lowest rate of violence was reported in Finland, at 13 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last 10 years alcohol consumption among British girls has been going up to the point where there is now virtually no gender difference in drinking between boys and girls,&#8221; said study co-author Candace Currie, director of Edinburgh University&#8217;s child and adolescent health research unit. &#8220;That&#8217;s not true in the rest of Europe. What we have to ask is whether fighting is part of this behaviour of drunkenness or whether there are other factors involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study also looked at violence among boys: young males in the Czech Republic reported the highest levels of violence, with 69 percent reporting a past-year fight, while Finnish boys were the least likely to fight (37 percent).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source: Center for Effective Drug Abuse Research &amp; Statistics. March 21. 2006<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research SummaryBritish girls are among the most violent in the world, and binge drinking may be to blame, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Jan. 24. \u00a0 A World Health Organization study found that about one in three U.K. girls said they had been in a fight during the previous year, compared to a worldwide average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,32,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-crime-violence-prison","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}