Policies to reduce alcohol-impaired driving : evaluating elements of deterrence.

Author(s)
Legge, J.S. & Park, J.
Year
Abstract

This study assesses state policies toward alcohol-impaired driving, a major threat to traffic safety and a cause of highway casualties. State laws and policies seek to deter such behavior by improving the certainty, severity, and celerity of punishment. A pooled cross-sectional time series regression analysis of the 48 contiguous states is utilized to estimate the effects of the three components of deterrence in conjunction with a set of environmental control variables. Of the deterrence-based variables, per se laws and administrative licence suspension are found to have the greatest impact on single-vehicle nighttime fatalities. In contrast, laws which attempt to increase the severity of punishment have virtually no effect.

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942457 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 75 (1994), No. 3 (September), p. 594-606, 39 ref.

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