Drink Driving Offence in UK Law

  • Deterrence, Defiance and Deviance: An Investigation Into a Group of Recidivist Drink Drivers' Self-Reported Offending Behaviours
    • No. 39-1, April 2006
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
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    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 ... ...
  • Regional variation in sentencing: The incarceration of aggravated drink drivers in the New Zealand District Courts
    • No. 46-3, December 2013
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
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    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 ... ...
  • Criminals on the road? An exploratory study of those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving in Taipei City, Taiwan, 2014−2018
    • No. 25-1, March 2023
    • International Journal of Police Science and Management
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    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 ... ...
  • Increasing public confidence in Romanian probation system by developing the optimal social reintegration programmes for drink-driving offenders
    • No. 13-2, August 2021
    • European Journal of Probation
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    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 ... ...
  • Technologies of crime, control and change
    • No. 64-3, September 2017
    • Probation Journal
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    ... ...  a person has been convicted of a drink"-driving offence, is anotherexample\xC2" ... ...
  • Good behaviour bonds and re-offending: The effect of bond length
    • No. 47-1, April 2014
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
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    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 ... ...
  • Does parole supervision reduce the risk of re-offending?
    • No. 49-4, December 2016
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
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    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 ... ...
  • Sentencing Persons Convicted of Drink-Driving Offences
    • No. 12-3, September 1979
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
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    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • The Role of Legal Coercion in the Treatment of Offenders with Alcohol and Heroin Problems*
    • No. 30-2, August 1997
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
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    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 ... ...
  • “WHICH OF YOU DID IT?”
    • No. 52-2, March 1989
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... 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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