NCJ Number
125485
Editor(s)
J P Rothe
Date Published
1990
Length
290 pages
Annotation
This series of papers presents a multidisciplinary perspective on traffic safety theory, so as to provide a broader base for policy designed to increase traffic safety.
Abstract
The featured comprehensive approach to traffic safety encompasses sociological, psychological, technological, legal, economic, political, and ethical perspectives. The factors in the occurrence, response to, and interpretation of a traffic accident or violation are related to all of the aforementioned areas. In presenting this multidisciplinary concept of traffic safety, the papers in this book are presented under the topics of the construction of the accident reality, the institutional reconstruction of the accident, personal reflection about accident involvement, and the philosophical and ethical pillars of traffic safety. Papers in the final section of the book propose research and policy strategies that embrace a multidisciplinary approach to traffic safety. Chapter references, six figures, appended supplementary material, subject index.