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11 Contemp. Drug Probs. 325 (1982)
Effects of the Experimental Saturday Closing of Liquor Retail Stores in Sweden

handle is hein.journals/condp11 and id is 337 raw text is: Contemporary Drug ProblemslFall 1982 Effects of the experimental Saturday closing of liquor retail stores in Sweden BY ORVAR OLSSON AND PER-OLOF H. WIKSTROM Orvar Olsson is a staff member of the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, and Per-Olof Wikstrbm is affiliated with the General Criminology Division of the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. All sales of export beers, wines, and spirits in Sweden take place in special state-owned liquor retail stores. In May 1981, the Swedish Riksdag resolved as an experiment that liquor retail stores were to be closed on Saturdays between June and September 1981. The purpose of this experiment was to see whether Saturday closing would have a positive impact on, for example, total alcohol consumption, drunkenness, public order, and certain types of crime. The government bill provided for an evaluation of the experimental scheme, and the present article is a summary of the results of that evaluation. AUTHORS' NOTE: Olsson served as project leader and Wikstrbm as secretary of the expert group for the evaluation of the effects of experimental Saturday closings. The full report of the evaluation has been published in Swedish: En Utviirdering ar Fi6rsoket med Lrdagsstangda Systembutiker Sommaren 1981: Rapport fran en expertgrupp, ISBN 91-38-06896-6 (Stockholm: Social Departmentet, DsS 1982:2). © 1984 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc.

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