In 1979 Washington State passed legislation establishing several new provisions for dealing with the drinking driver. Among these were the establishment of a 'per se' definition of DWI as driving or being in physical control of a motor vehicle with a BAC of .10 or higher a mandatory one day jail sentence for first-time DWI offenders and 7 days for repeat offenders and mandatory attendance at an Alcohol Information School for all first offenders. To evaluate the effectiveness of these laws as a specific and a general deterrent to driving after drinking, two investigations were performed. General deterrence effects (Study 1) were explored by a time-series analysis of monthly alcohol-related accident data from 41 cities and 15 counties for the time-period 1977 through 1982. Specific deterrence effects (Study 2) were investigated by a pre-/post- legislation comparison of recidivism rates from samples of first, repeat, and non-DWI offenders.
Evaluation of Washington State's 1979 Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) Laws
1984
129 pages
Report
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