{"id":242,"date":"2007-06-28T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/06\/28\/all-the-young-dudes-carry-the-booze\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T23:50:00","slug":"all-the-young-dudes-carry-the-booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/06\/28\/all-the-young-dudes-carry-the-booze\/","title":{"rendered":"all the young dudes, carry the booze"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ever heard the term shoulder tapping<\/em>? today’s strib<\/a><\/em> describes a new minnversity study<\/a> in which young-looking research assistants offered liquor store patrons money to buy them beer.<\/p>\n

epidemiologist traci toomey<\/a> finds that young males are significantly more likely to respond favorably to such requests: 19 percent agreed to purchase the beer, relative to about 8 percent in the general population.<\/p>\n

this is an intriguing finding, i suppose, and consistent with the general tendency toward greater delinquency among young men relative to other demographic groups. the study used 4 female research assistants and 1 male RA, however, so i’m a bit concerned that chivalry<\/em> or some sort of ican’tbelievethiscutegirlisactuallytalkingtome<\/em> phenomenon might have something <\/em>to do with the propensity of young dudes to violate the law and respond favorably to the request.<\/p>\n

i can’t imagine a scenario in which i’d buy booze for minors, partly because i’m afraid they’d drink themselves to death (well, i did see a bit of this while attending college in madison<\/em>) and partly because i’d assumed one would be severely punished for such an offense. in case you’d consider making such purchases for your undergrads, here’s the formal deterrent:<\/p>\n

St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh said they have charged individuals with providing alcohol to a minor, a gross misdemeanor carrying up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, for buying in such circumstances.<\/em>
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if someone taps you on the shoulder, just say no.
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photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii , Star Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ever heard the term shoulder tapping? today’s strib describes a new minnversity study in which young-looking research assistants offered liquor store patrons money to buy them beer. epidemiologist traci toomey finds that young males are significantly more likely to respond favorably to such requests: 19 percent agreed to purchase the beer, relative to about 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}