Today in news that might as well not exist, for all the effect it will have on anything.
The study, conducted by researchers from the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, found that a conviction for a crime involving alcohol is a much greater indication of future violent behavior than a conviction for almost any other offense—including other violent ones.
"One finding that really struck me was that when you threw alcohol and other kinds of criminal activity into the mix, alcohol remained a strong predictor but the other forms of criminal activity did not," said Garen Wintemute, the director of the program. "Alcohol was a more important predictor of future violence than prior violence was."