ABSTRACT
The links between crime, violence and male offending are now more deeply researched in a growing international literature that understands much antisocial and criminal behaviour as a social resource for the attainment and protection of masculine identities. A wider goal was to offer research evidence about the nature of the causal link between male drinking and public disorder and violence from a social actor perspective. Group drinking varied from two or three times a week to as little as once a month. Students tended to drink more when they were on holidays. Aggression and conflict while drinking were conceived as typical of young groups of men or even due to the combined chemical effect of alcohol and male hormones. The link between crime and male offending is now being explored internationally in a new research approach that eschews essentialism and understands crime as a resource for the social achievement of masculinity.
