Drink Driving Offence in UK Law
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Deterrence, Defiance and Deviance: An Investigation Into a Group of Recidivist Drink Drivers' Self-Reported Offending Behaviours
Abstract This article reports on the utilisation of aspects of defiance, deviance and deterrence theories to examine the self-reported offending behaviours and punishment experiences fo...... ... law and questioned the govern-ment’s legitimacy to control drink driving. Multivariate analysis revealedthat factors from all three models were ... , but a number of factors appearassociated with a drink driving offence.DETERRENCE THEORY AND DRINK DRIVINGSustained policing efforts in ... ...
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Regional variation in sentencing: The incarceration of aggravated drink drivers in the New Zealand District Courts
Consistency of sentencing outcomes is a key aspect of the achievement of justice. There is uncertainty and disagreement about whether consistency of sentencing outcomes is achieved between location...... ... to which similar offenders convicted of aggravated drink driving receive similar sentences for similar ... Courts. Logistic regression is used to control for offence ... ...
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Criminals on the road? An exploratory study of those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving in Taipei City, Taiwan, 2014−2018
Empirical research conducted in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe has accumulated over the last 50 years and has identified links between mainstream crime (e.g. violence and a...... ... and acquisitive crime) and driving offences (e.g.dangerous driving, drink driving, driving while disqualified). Put simply, international evidence ... tends to be associated with a willingness to commit other types of offence. Unlike theAnglophone countries and Europe, no peer-reviewed published ... ...
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Increasing public confidence in Romanian probation system by developing the optimal social reintegration programmes for drink-driving offenders
The laudable evolution of the Romanian criminal punishment system from prison to non-custodial sanctions applied to drink-driving offenders is a sign of political and judicial institutional confide...... ... In 1966, the refusal to submit to drug or alcohol testing was for the first time considered a traffic offence (Romanian Police, 2019).In time, the punishments for road offences were criminal fine and prison. In the fol-lowing, we will present the evolution of ... ...
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Technologies of crime, control and change
... ... a person has been convicted of a drink"-driving offence, is anotherexample\xC2" ... ...
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Good behaviour bonds and re-offending: The effect of bond length
The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of good behaviour bonds in reducing re-offending. Data on 19,478 individuals who received a good behaviour bond under section 9 of the Crimes ...... ... ) Act 1999 (NSW) for their principal offence were exam-ined. Propensity score matching ... order offence, 14 if low orspecial range drink-driving offence (i.e. prescribed concentration of ... ...
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Does parole supervision reduce the risk of re-offending?
Although a large number of offenders are released to parole each year, little is known about the effectiveness of parole supervision in reducing re-offending. The few studies that have been conduct...... ... Keywords Offence ... offences were proven ... Prior drink-driving offence ... ...
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Sentencing Persons Convicted of Drink-Driving Offences
... ... an alternative sentence.Possible Aims of Sentences for Drink-Driving OffencesUpon imposing asentence on a person convicted of a drink-driving offence ajudge or magistrate may attempt to achieve one or more of the following sixgoals, although in some instances a sentence giving effect to one aim may ... ...
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The Role of Legal Coercion in the Treatment of Offenders with Alcohol and Heroin Problems*
This article discusses the ethical justification for, and reviews the American evidence on the effectiveness of, treatment for alcohol and heroin dependence that is provided under legal coercion to...... ... focuseson legally coerced treatment for drink-driving offendersandheroin-dependentproperty ... bypersons charged with or convicted of an offence to which their alcohol or drugdependence has ... ...
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“WHICH OF YOU DID IT?”
... ... happens that two men, the worse for drink, are found standing by a car which ... whichever of the pair was driving, the other knowingly encouraged him. A ... , counselled or procured the offence. Which of these verbs fits the owner ... ...
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