NCJ Number
86591
Journal
Police Chief Volume: 49 Issue: 12 Dated: (December 1982) Pages: 20-41
Date Published
1982
Length
22 pages
Annotation
A series of seven articles bearing upon the issue of drunk driving focuses on the efforts of various professional and citizen organizations to counter the problem, the raising of the legal drinking age, teenage drunk driving, and family violence and alcohol.
Abstract
The opening article reviews resolutions of the International Association of Chiefs of Police bearing upon drunk driving and discusses new policy approaches of this organization toward drunk driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's approach to the drunk driving problem is considered in the second article. The major points are the general deterrence approach, a community focus, a systems approach, financial self-sufficiency, citizen support, prevention, and increased use of safety belts. A third article argues for the institutionalization of the work of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, so as to give activists a focus for a decade-long campaign to make drunk driving socially unacceptable. Another presentation describes the development, program, and achievements of the citizen group Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), followed by an article that maintains recent research indicates the raising of the legal drinking age helps reduce the incidence of drunk driving. Drunk driving as a particular problem among teens is documented in another paper, and effective ways of dealing with such juvenile offenders are suggested. The concluding article in the series maintains that when alcohol problems are successfully addressed, the cycle of violence in families can be stopped.