By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:08 BST, 19 June 2019 | Updated: 05:31 BST, 19 June 2019
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Controversial lock-out laws are failing to stop alcohol-fuelled violence and are encouraging young people to get drunk before going out, a study has found.
Griffith University examined the Queensland Labor government's decision in 2016 to stop nightclubs from selling drinks at 3am instead of 5am.
Alcohol shot sales at these venues were also banned after midnight.
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Controversial lock-out laws are failing to stop alcohol-fuelled violence and are encouraging young people to get drunk before going out, a three-year study has found (pictured is a young man at Kings Cross in Sydney)
Study author Associate Professor Grant Devilly said these laws designed to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence, following a series of fatal coward punch attacks, had failed.
'Because they were coming in more drunk, they were still at the same level,' he told ABC Radio. 'So we're not seeing much of a change.'
The report found a noticeable reduction in the number of people entering nightclub entertainment districts with zero-alcohol readings.
'Exit blood alcohol readings were less consistent but showed some evidence of an increase,' Associate Professor Devilly said.
'Crime statistics and patrons' self-reported experiences of violence did not change.'
Griffith University examined the Queensland Labor government's decision in 2016 to stop nightclubs from selling drinks at 3am instead of 5am (pictured is Brisbane's Fortitude Valley)
Associate Professor Devilly, from the Brisbane university's School of Applied Psychology and the Griffith Criminology Institute, said the Queensland laws
