Preventing Drunk Driving shows what is being done today, in research and practice, to reduce impaired driving and the fatalities and injuries it produces. In this informative book, you’ll discover how current research and prevention programs are increasing the success of designated driver programs. You’ll see when intervention works, when it doesn’t, and how you can be most effective as a citizen in the fight against impaired driving deaths along your own stretch of the world’s highways and city streets.
Key Features
- The results of experiments designed to test methods of increasing designated driving.
- Census-tract mapping can target communities prone to DWI offenses.
- The benefits and limitations of vehicle-interlock devices for the prevention of recidivism.
- How interveners may improve their chances of stopping an impaired person from getting behind the wheel.
- Ways that blood alcohol concentration (BAC) feedback stations can reduce DUI incidents.
Additional Information
In Preventing Drunk Driving, you’ll get up-to-date data on how researchers are identifying the most dangerous drunk driving recidivists. Increased study and research have led to theoretical models of intervention, assessments of the usefulness of vehicle interlock programs, and the use of mapping to target offenders most at risk. Preventing Drunk Driving analyzes the societal ill of driving under the influence of alcohol and its related death toll from a wide variety of angles.
