A Criminological Approach to Explain Chronic Drunk Driving

DeMichele, Matthew; Lowe, Nathan C.; Payne, Brian K.

doi:10.1007/s12103-013-9216-4

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“…This is important because the relationship between low BAC and crash risk may vary across place due to changes in environmental factors. The current study significantly adds to the criminological research by incorporating research from the traffic safety field along with a criminological approach which is rare (DeMichele et al, 2014). Finally, this article aims to build on the one large study of low BAC driver culpability by utilizing quasi-experimental methods to analyze low BAC culpability in multiple and single vehicle accidents and assessing structural factors that may exist external to the crash through multilevel modeling (Phillips et al, 2014).…”

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Are Buzzed Drivers Really the Problem: A Quasi-Experimental Multilevel Assessment of the Involvement of Drivers With Low Blood Alcohol Levels in Fatal Crashes

Stringer

2016

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Controversy over drivers with low blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) have become a highly salient issue since the proposal to reduce the per se BAC limit to .05 for driving under the influence (DUI) convictions. However, little traffic safety, and no criminological research, has examined this phenomenon. This study fills a deficiency in the literature by utilizing quasi-experimental propensity score matching techniques in combination with multilevel modeling to examine the extent of involvement of low BAC drivers in fatal crashes. The results indicate that low BAC drivers are only involved in a very small portion of crashes and are not at fault in many. In addition, although drivers with low BAC have an increased odds of responsibility for a crash than drivers with no BAC, this increase is much lower than other factors such as age, speed, distractions, drug use, and high BAC. This study discusses the implications of focusing resources on drivers that are not considerable contributors to crashes, such as a predicted increase in arrests.

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Are Buzzed Drivers Really the Problem: A Quasi-Experimental Multilevel Assessment of the Involvement of Drivers With Low Blood Alcohol Levels in Fatal Crashes

Stringer

2016

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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“…For the general driving population, recidivism reportedly varies with, gender, age, ethnicity, education, employment status, and blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) (with those having very high BAC convictions, 0.15mg and above being more likely to reoffend) (Chou et al 2005;Morrison et al 2002;Rahkonen et al 2009). Drivers with previous drink driving convictions have found to have a history of including alcoholism and substance abuse (LaPlante et al 2008), mental health concerns (Nelson et al 2015;Shaffer et al 2007), volatility (DeMichele et al 2014), and involvement in crime (LaBrie et al 2007). Few studies of these factors among Indigenous…”

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The characteristics of young Indigenous drink drivers in Queensland, Australia

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Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…The rationale for Dugosh et al's () study is well founded, as we have been working on a similar endeavor to develop an instrument to classify DUI offenders (DeMichele and Lowe, , ; DeMichele, Lowe, and Payne, , ; DeMichele and Payne, )…”

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“…DeMichele et al () used a dataset of nearly 3,404 drunk drivers and found overdispersion to be a problem. Figure shows overdispersion with prior drunk‐driving arrests that are skewed toward the left as nearly half of the sample has no previous DUI arrests (other than the current offense).…”

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If I Had a Hammer, I Would Not Use it to Control Drunk Driving

DeMichele

Payne

2013

Criminology & Public Policy

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T he classic song "The hammer song" by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays (1949b) includes lyrics that tell us how the musicians proposed using a hammer. The rendition by Peter, Paul, and Mary ("If I had a hammer," Seeger and Hays, 1949a) who sung about hammering all over the land all day long is particularly well known. Of course, they were not really going to use the hammer the way they suggested; instead, the hammer was a metaphor for peace and civility. The way that criminal justice professionals use tools, however, is not metaphoric and has real implications for the lives of offenders, criminal justice professionals, and community members. It is within this framework that one can realize the importance of Dugosh, Festinger, and Marlowe's (2013, this issue) study.Criminologists have paid relatively little attention to explaining chronic drunk driving. Therefore, Dugosh et al. (2013) are to be commended for their contribution to the criminological literature with their study of the differences between one-time and recidivist drivingunder-the-influence (DUI) offenders. The current consensus explaining DUI recidivism relies on substance abuse and blood alcohol concentration (BAC) on arrest. Dugosh et al. point to the need for the community corrections field to have a short predictive instrument to classify DUI offenders. They argue that BAC, although correlated with DUI recidivism, "alone should . . . not be used as a sole determinant for increasing the severity of a DUI offender's case disposition." Furthermore, Dugosh et al. cite the overly clinical orientation,

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A Criminological Approach to Explain Chronic Drunk Driving

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

Are Buzzed Drivers Really the Problem: A Quasi-Experimental Multilevel Assessment of the Involvement of Drivers With Low Blood Alcohol Levels in Fatal Crashes

Are Buzzed Drivers Really the Problem: A Quasi-Experimental Multilevel Assessment of the Involvement of Drivers With Low Blood Alcohol Levels in Fatal Crashes

The characteristics of young Indigenous drink drivers in Queensland, Australia

If I Had a Hammer, I Would Not Use it to Control Drunk Driving

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