Social control of the drinking driver

It is more that 20 years since the “Social Control of the Drink Driver” edited by Laurence, Snortum and Zimring (1988) were published. It was, and remains a major examination of the issue involving 17 scientists from all relevant disciplines and policy centres and represents the current practice and experience at the time. While much of, but by no means all, the content is centred on the North American experience the scholarship and range of research data explored through the investigative lens of lawyers, pharmacologists, psychologists, sociologists, criminologists and economists covers all the major issues being examined in Europe, and Australia at the time. More importantly, it presents the policy aspirations and goals of nine countries and includes a comparison of deterrence and the legal context in six countries; emerging technologies for control and the potential contributions of education and rehabilitation. The experience of promoting evidence based policies and practices are generally experienced in all countries as both laborious and painfully slow. However, this ICADTS meeting in Norway provides an opportunity to challenge these feelings by re-examining the current situation compared with that documented over 20yrs ago. This presentation will undertake a reality check on just what we have achieved within that time and try to attribute success and failure towards recommendations for our future endeavours.

THE DRINKING DRIVER, A guide to the five part series ONE FOR THE ROAD

THE DRINKING DRIVER is a guide for listeners to the Adult Education radio series ONE FOR THE ROAD, a five-part series on drink-driving and Australia’s road toll. ONE FOR THE ROAD was produced by Lee Parker and Julie Levi, with assistance from the Federal Office of Road Safety in Canberra. The five programs, presented by Lee Parker were first broadcast on ABC Radio National in January 1989, and repeated on Radio National and Regional Stations across Australia in April/May 1989. THE DRINKING DRIVER was written by Mark King, Senior Project Officer with the Road Safety Division of the South Australian Department of Transport.

The drinking driver and traffic safety project. Annual report. Volume I of two volumes.

National Highway Safety Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Drinking driver and traffic safety project: final report, vol. I.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Drinking driver and traffic safety project, final report: vol. II, probabilities for drinking drivers.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

A follow up evaluation of three classroom - range driver improvement training programs: 1970 - 1974. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Analysis of the effectiveness of driver retraining schools. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

Rehabilitating drinking drivers: an analysis of three years of activities of the New Hampshire Alcohol Safety Action Project. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

Summary report on young driver improvement efforts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Analysis of the New Hampshire Alcohol Safety Action Project's driver retraining schools. Analytic study no. 5.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Analysis of the New Hampshire Alcohol Safety Action Project's driver retraining schools. Analytic study no. 6.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Driver improvement training and evaluation: initial development. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

An analysis of the disulfiram and court school programs.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Alcohol Countermeasures, Washington, D.C.

Phase I: developing generalized driving while intoxicated (DWI) school curricula. Interim report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

DUI client characteristics - an interim analysis of the random assignment process. Interim report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.