Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver: A Study of General and Specific DeterrencePolicing and Punishing the Drinking Driver is at one level about the impact of specific drinking-driving countermeasures (punishments imposed by courts on convicted offenders and random breath testing) in a particular place (New South Wales, Australia) in two particular years (1972 and 1983). At another level, however, the research reported herein is concerned with general questions of deterrence, and with the impact of the criminal justice system on the perception and behavior of a broad cross-section of the population. In contrast to much of the research in the drink-drive field, the research questions concentrate on the psychological and sociological processes whereby behavior is altered in the short-term as the result of a massive legal intervention or as the result of the routine imposition of legal punishments. |
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Drinking Drivers and the Criminal Justice System | 1 |
A Model of the Deterrence Process | 20 |
Deterrence Human Rationality and Drinking and Driving | 31 |
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Accident Analysis accidents alcohol consumption analysis arrest certainty ASK ALL DRINKERS Australia avoid drinking chances of arrest Chapter correlation crime criminal offenses Criminology deterrence model deterrence process deterrence theory deterrent effect deterrent impact drink-drive behavior drink-drive law drinking and driving driven past driving behaviors evaluation evidence exposure to RBT factors Figure Grasmick Gusfield heavy drinkers Homel influence interaction introduction of RBT legal punishments legal sanctions low alcohol beer marginal specific deterrence measures modifications to travel motorists peer pressure penalty severity perceived chances perceived severity perceptions of arrest perceptions of sanctions police enforcement predicted predictors present study pressure to drink probability problem prospect theory publicity question random breath testing randomly tested RBT operation recidivism reconvicted for drinking reconviction rates relationship relative severity responses Road Safety Ross sample sentencing severity of penalties significant social South Wales statistics suggests Sydney tion traffic offenses travel behaviors typology Unsure variables