Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver

1. Front Matter

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2. Drinking Drivers and the Criminal Justice System

   • Ross Homel

   Pages 1-21

3. A Model of the Deterrence Process

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   Pages 22-70

4. The Evidence for Deterrence

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   Pages 71-104

5. Random Breath Testing in Australia

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   Pages 105-125

6. The Random Breath Test Study: Research Questions and Method

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   Pages 126-146

7. Results of the Random Breath Test Study

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   Pages 147-200

8. The Penalties Study: Research Questions and Method

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   Pages 201-215

9. Results of the Penalties Study

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   Pages 216-232

10. Implications of the Research

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    Pages 233-272

11. Back Matter

    Pages 273-318

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Policing 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.

• Crime
• Criminal Justice
• intervention
• perception
• police

• School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  Ross Homel

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