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Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver

A Study of General and Specific Deterrence

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Ross Homel

    1. School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Research in Criminology (RESEARCH CRIM.)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Drinking Drivers and the Criminal Justice System

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 1-21

  3. A Model of the Deterrence Process

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 22-70

  4. The Evidence for Deterrence

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 71-104

  5. Random Breath Testing in Australia

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 105-125

  6. The Random Breath Test Study: Research Questions and Method

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 126-146

  7. Results of the Random Breath Test Study

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 147-200

  8. The Penalties Study: Research Questions and Method

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 201-215

  9. Results of the Penalties Study

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 216-232

  10. Implications of the Research

    • Ross Homel
    Pages 233-272

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 273-318
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About this book

Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver is at one level about the impact of specific drinking-driving countermeasures (punishments imposed by courts on convicted offenders and random breath testing) in a particular place (New South Wales, Australia) in two particular years (1972 and 1983). At another level, however, the research reported herein is concerned with general questions of deterrence, and with the impact of the criminal justice system on the perception and behavior of a broad cross-section of the population. In contrast to much of the research in the drink-drive field, the research questions concentrate on the psychological and sociological processes whereby behavior is altered in the short-term as the result of a massive legal intervention or as the result of the routine imposition of legal punishments.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Ross Homel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver

  • Book Subtitle: A Study of General and Specific Deterrence

  • Authors: Ross Homel

  • Series Title: Research in Criminology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7077-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96715-8Due: 01 August 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-7079-6Published: 13 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-7077-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7540

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 318

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

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