Crime and disorder

Alcohol misuse threatens the safety of individuals and communities – increasing the risk and fear of harm. The facts:

• 50% of all violent crime is alcohol-related.

• In 2007 there were a total of 560 casualties as a result of drink driving in the North East, 60 of which resulted in death or serious injury.

• More than a third of offenders being supervised by the National Offender Management Service in the North East are believed to be alcohol dependent.

• More than nine in ten North Easterners associate alcohol consumption with anti-social behaviour, crime and violence and domestic abuse.

• More than eight in ten North Easterners associate alcohol consumption with being a victim of crime.

• More than seven in ten North Easterners think that people being drunk and rowdy in public is a ‘fairly big’ or ‘big’ problem.