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Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver A Study of General and Specific Deterrence

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 ano...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Homel, Ross
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
Series:Research in Criminology
Subjects:
Criminal Law And Criminal Procedure Law
Criminal Law
Behavioral Sciences And Psychology
Psychiatry
Psychology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A Typology of Convicted Offenders
  • 8 Results of the Penalties Study
  • Marginal Specific Deterrence: Reconviction Rates and Relative Severity of Penalties
  • A Typology of the Convicted Drinking Driver
  • Implications of the Penalties Study for the Deterrence Model
  • 9 Implications of the Research
  • Review of the Random Breath Text Study
  • Review of the Penalties Study
  • An Assessment of the Deterrence Model
  • Implications for Social Policy
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Author Index
  • 1 Drinking Drivers and the Criminal Justice System
  • Ways of Studying Drinking and Driving in the Context of the Criminal Justice System
  • Drinking and Driving as Crime
  • Who Is the Drinking Driver?
  • Summary
  • 2 A Model of the Deterrence Process
  • Deterrence Theory and the Deterrence Doctrine
  • Deterrence, Human Rationality, and Drinking and Driving
  • Measuring Deterrence: Gibbs’ “Fundamental Problem”
  • Elaborating the Deterrence Model for Random Breath Testing
  • Elaboration of the Deterrence Model for the Study of Penalties and Reconviction Rates
  • Summary
  • 3 The Evidence for Deterrence
  • Perceptual Research
  • General Deterrence of the Drinking Driver
  • Studies of Penalties and Reconvictions
  • Summary
  • 4 Random Breath Testing in Australia
  • Trends in Road Safety
  • Alcohol Use and Drink-Driving in Australia
  • Random Breath Testing
  • RBT Boots and All: Tasmania and New South Wales
  • Summary
  • 5 The Random Breath Test Study: Research Questions and Method
  • The Research Questions
  • Method
  • Statistical Analysis
  • 6 Results of the Random Breath Test Study
  • Descriptive Analysis of the April Data
  • The Effects of Police Testing: An Area-Level Analysis
  • The Relationship Between Exposure to RBT and Perceptions of the Chances of Being Randomly Tested and Arrested for Drinking and Driving
  • Influences on Arrest Certainty: Towards a Parsimonious Model
  • Modifications to Travel and Drinking Behaviors in the April Survey
  • Reasons for Not Drinking and Driving: Fear Versus Conscience
  • The Longitudinal Study: February and April Compared
  • Drink-Driving Between February and April
  • Perceptions and Evaluations of Penalty Severity
  • Summary of Main Results
  • 7 The Penalties Study: Research Questions and Method
  • The Research Questions
  • The Design of the Penalties Study.-Relative and Perceived Severity of Penalty
  • Environmental Factors

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