Australian criminal law is being actively reconfigured in an effort to produce a more effective response to the problem of alcohol-related violence. This article uses the Safe Night Out Legislation Amendment Act 2014 (Qld) as a case study for two purposes: i) to introduce a set of conceptual tools and typologies that can be used to investigate the relationship between ‘intoxication’ and criminal law; and ii) to raise a number of concerns about how the effects of alcohol and other drugs are implicated in laws governing police powers, criminal responsibility and punishment. We draw attention to the different and sometimes inconsistent ways in which significance is attached to evidence of the consumption of alcohol and other drugs, as well as to variations and ambiguities in how legislation attempts to capture the degree of impairment or effects that are regarded as warranting the attachment of criminal law significance.

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“醉酒”在澳大利亚刑法中的定义和意义-以昆士兰州“安全之夜”立法为例

澳大利亚刑法正在积极调整，以期对酒精相关的暴力问题做出更有效的回应。本文将《 2014年安全夜立法修正案》（Qld）用作案例研究有两个目的：i）引入了一套概念工具和类型学，可用于调查“醉酒”与刑法之间的关系；（ii）引起人们对酒精和其他毒品的影响如何影响管辖警察权力，刑事责任和惩罚的法律的关注。我们提请注意酒精和其他药物的消费证据具有不同的意义，有时甚至是不一致的方式，