Drivers' attitudes to the seriousness of road traffic offences considered in relation to the design of sanctions

Brown, I. D.; Copeman, A. K.

doi:10.1016/0001-4575(75)90015-9

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“…Brown and Copeman (1975) have used a somewhat similar technique to investigate the attitude of drivers on traffic offences, and the procedure has been known to one of the investigators (DAP) as a method for teaching criminology in seminar situations at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge. Brown and Copeman (1975) have used a somewhat similar technique to investigate the attitude of drivers on traffic offences, and the procedure has been known to one of the investigators (DAP) as a method for teaching criminology in seminar situations at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge.…”

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How Serious is the Offence of Drunken Driving?

Pocock¹,

Landauer²

1978

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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How Serious is the Offence of Drunken Driving?

Pocock¹,

Landauer²

1978

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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“…The emphasis of much road traffic research of the last decade has been on speeding behaviour-meaning both exceeding speed limits and driving inappropriately fast for the circumstances. Exceeding speed limits is regarded as a relatively minor traffic infraction by drivers compared to other traffic breaches (Brown and Copeman, 1975;Corbett and Simon, 1991) and this may be partly why the majority of drivers admit to it (e.g. RAC, 2005).…”

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Gender differences in responses to speed cameras

Corbett

Caramlau

2006

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Claire Corbett lectures mainly in criminology at Brunel University and has researched widely in the criminal justice system. For the last decade she has specialised in vehicle-related crime research, especially unlawful driving behaviour.Dr Isabela Caramlau Division of Health in the Community Warwick Medical School Gibbet Hill campus University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Isabela. Caramlau@warwick.ac.uk Isabela Caramlau is a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and has broad research experience on attitudes and risky behaviours. Gender differences in responses to speed cameras: typology findings and implications for road safety Abstract:Automated speed cameras in England and Wales have become a very common means of enforcement of speed limit breaches in most police force areas, but they are not without controversy despite the majority of public opinion behind them. Research in the mid-1990s showed that drivers responded to speed cameras in one of several key ways, and the typology of responses produced was linked with drivers' characteristics. Now that women comprise more than 4 out of 10 licensed drivers in England and Wales, it is timely to revisit the earlier research by considering the gender characteristics of the driver typology, and this paper contrasts the results longitudinally with those obtained from a 2003 survey that inter alia explored similar issues. The implications for road safety of the behavioural and attitudinal differences noted by gender (and age) are discussed, especially in the context of risk-based control policies and the term 'drivers'. This latter aspect is achieved by way of a brief analysis of national newspaper articles.Keywords: speed cameras; gender differences; age differences; driver typology. Current concerns in speed camera enforcementThe emphasis of much road traffic research of the last decade has been on speeding behaviour -meaning both exceeding speed limits and driving inappropriately fast for the circumstances. Exceeding speed limits is regarded as a relatively minor traffic infraction by drivers compared to other traffic breaches (Brown and Copeman, 1975; Corbett and Simon, 1991) and this may be partly why the majority of drivers admit to it (e.g. RAC, 2005). Yet speeding is a major cause of injury and death on the road (e.g. Taylor et al, 2000; Farmer et al, 1999), despite recent arguments as to its importance as a crash determinant (see Broughton et al, 1998 and ABD, 2005a).Probably because drivers do not see it as dangerous when they do it (e.g. Corbett and Simon, 1992: 38-40) speeding is proving hard to control and harder to eradicate.A combination of education and technological advances would seem to offer the most hope of control in the longer term, perhaps in the guise of more speed awareness programmes for detected speeding drivers (McKenna, 2004) and intelligent in-vehicle speed adaptation used in conjunction with satellite technology that would restrict maximum speeds to a predetermined level (e.g. Carsten and Comte, 2001), which system is r...

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“…In spite of a survey of perceived seriousness of various traffic offences which ranked drinking and driving at 6-44 on a scale of 10 (Brown 1975), apprehension and conviction of a drink/driving offence is usually considered by family and friends as a misfortune and not a criminal offence. This view is reinforced by the way the judiciary and the legal profession view the drink/driving laws; and that a judge or magistrate convicted under these laws would not suffer any career impediment whereas conviction for any other serious offence would almost invariably lead to resignation or dismissal (Light 1986).…”

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The drinking driver: a medical view

Raffle

1989

Transport Reviews

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Drivers' attitudes to the seriousness of road traffic offences considered in relation to the design of sanctions

Cited by 39 publications

References 5 publications

How Serious is the Offence of Drunken Driving?

How Serious is the Offence of Drunken Driving?

Gender differences in responses to speed cameras

The drinking driver: a medical view

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