Traffic offenders, backgrounds to behaviour and options for intervention through education; A literature study. A great deal of attention has been paid to backgrounds to traffic violation behaviour from the perspective of road safety policy. Policy makers and other road safety professionals are particularly interested in the determinants of and possible influence on hazardous and aggressive driving behaviour. This literature study maps the knowledge about backgrounds to traffic offenders. The study intends to identify or improve interventions with respect to communication and education. Research literature for this study has been collected about recidivist offenders since 2000. The following questions were focused on: * What are the determinants of repeated traffic violation behaviour? * Which groups of offenders can be distinguished? * Which effective behaviour influence strategies for traffic offenders are available with respect to communication and education? About 120 identified studies were subdivided into speed offenders, hazardous/aggressive offenders and alcohol and drugs offenders. The three questions were answered for each category on the basis of the collected research literature. Finally, recommendations for further research were formulated.
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