Effectiveness of customized Victim Impact Panels on first-time DWI offender inmates.

Author(s)
Wheeler, D.R. Rogers, E.M. Tonigan, J.S. & Woodall, W.G.
Year
Abstract

This study investigates the effectiveness of a customized Victim Impact Panel (VIP) on reducing 'driving while impaired' recidivism, alcohol consumption and drinking and driving behavior. The study was conducted at a 28-day Detention/Treatment Program in a largely rural county in northwestern New Mexico. Study participants were randomly assigned to attend or not attend a VIP while participating in the program for court-defined first-time driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders. There were no significant differences between the two groups on alcohol consumption, drinking and driving behavior, or recidivism within 2 years. These findings support the findings of other studies that VIPs do not produce a differential benefit with regards to recidivism of those convicted as a first-time DWI offenders. (A) "Reprinted with permission from Elsevier".

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Library number
I E119957 [electronic version only] /83 / ITRD E119957
Source

Accident Analysis & Prevention. 2004 /01. 36(1) Pp29-35 (10 Refs.)

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