NCJ Number
138065
Editor(s)
R J Wilson,
R E Mann
Date Published
1990
Length
304 pages
Annotation
This interdisciplinary volume documents the major scientific advances, social trends, and program innovations that have emerged to reduce and prevent drinking and driving.
Abstract
Using an interactionist framework that views the individual drinking driver within the contexts of both the immediate and the larger environment, the first section of the book discusses efforts to understand the impaired driver. Topics addressed include adolescent drinking and driving, psychosocial characteristics of drinking drivers, and the role alcoholism plays in this behavior. The second section, which examines deterrence-based approaches, identifies shortcomings in the classical model of deterrence and describes legal developments in the United States and Australia in a cultural/political context. The final section discusses other preventive approaches based on sound theoretical principles that take individual needs into account. These include control of alcohol availability, education, and rehabilitation. Although some chapters focus on developments in particular countries, the issues are common to all Western democracies. The topics discussed should be of interest to scholars, researchers, and practitioners throughout the world whose disciplines touch on the drinking-driving problem. Because it suggests guiding principles and highlights significant developments, this book may be used by professionals who are involved in program design and delivery within the traffic safety and alcohol treatment communities. Chapter references, tables, figures, and a subject index