Drunk Driving In America

Author : James B. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622290X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drunk Driving written by James B. Jacobs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk driving.

Author : Barron H. Lerner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421403498
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One for the Road written by Barron H. Lerner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t drink and drive. It's a deceptively simple rule, but one that is all too often ignored. And while efforts to eliminate drunk driving have been around as long as automobiles, every movement to keep drunks from driving has hit some alarming bumps in the road. Barron H. Lerner narrates the two strong—and vocal—sides to this debate in the United States: those who argue vehemently against drunk driving, and those who believe the problem is exaggerated and overregulated. A public health professor and historian of medicine, Lerner asks why these opposing views exist, examining drunk driving in the context of American beliefs about alcoholism, driving, individualism, and civil liberties. Angry and bereaved activist leaders and advocacy groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaign passionately for education and legislation, but even as people continue to be killed, many Americans remain unwilling to take stronger steps to address the problem. Lerner attributes this attitude to Americans’ love of drinking and love of driving, an inadequate public transportation system, the strength of the alcohol lobby, and the enduring backlash against Prohibition. The stories of people killed and maimed by drunk drivers are heartrending, and the country’s routine rejection of reasonable strategies for ending drunk driving is frustratingly inexplicable. This book is a fascinating study of the culture of drunk driving, grassroots and professional efforts to stop it, and a public that has consistently challenged and tested the limits of individual freedom. Why, despite decades and decades of warnings, do people still choose to drive while intoxicated? One for the Road provides crucial historical lessons for understanding the old epidemic of drunk driving and the new epidemic of distracted driving.

Author : Bruce Carruth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317840011
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drunk Driving in America written by Bruce Carruth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume discusses research, policy, and treatment approaches to one of America’s most serious problems--the drunk driver. The authors--many of the countries most dedicated professionals from academic, research, correctional, public health, and judicial system backgrounds--present an extraordinary array of creative and thought-provoking approaches to the drunk driver. Their thorough descriptions will help you better understand the drunk driver, and their exploration of new sentencing and treatment strategies provides a comprehensive look at the options to confronting and solving the problem of alcohol and traffic safety in the United States. Chapters challenge many long-held assumptions about those who drink and drive; address policy issues; examine the need for culturally specific education and training programs for police, court officials, and human service providers; and offer helpful suggestions for designing programs for women and adolescent offenders.

Author : United States Department of Transportation
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309034493
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alcohol in America written by United States Department of Transportation and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1985-02-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcohol is a killerâ€"1 of every 13 deaths in the United States is alcohol-related. In addition, 5 percent of the population consumes 50 percent of the alcohol. The authors take a close look at the problem in a "classy little study," as The Washington Post called this book. The Library Journal states, "...[T]his is one book that addresses solutions....And it's enjoyably readable....This is an excellent review for anyone in the alcoholism prevention business, and good background reading for the interested layperson." The Washington Post agrees: the book "...likely will wind up on the bookshelves of counselors, politicians, judges, medical professionals, and law enforcement officials throughout the country."

Author : United States. Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving written by United States. Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1484 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Drunk Driving Defense written by Lawrence Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Providing step-by-step instruction in defense of a drunk driving case in California, California Drunk Driving Defense outlines what to anticipate and how to prepare for DUI/DWI pretrial and trial proceedings. The authors provide information on sentencing, license suspension, and revocation, as well as strategy guidance regarding: Field evidence and the arresting officer; What to expect and how to prepare for pretrial and trial proceedings; Methods to challenge the Intoxilyzer, Intoximeter, and blood and urine analyses; Tasks for cross-examination of the chemical expert and the arresting officer; Professional responsibility issues; Civilian witnesses; Substantive offenses; Giving compelling jury instructions; Suppression of evidence, and Successfully attacking prior convictions" -- http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Treatises/California-Drunk-Driving-Defense-5th/p/104310653

Author : Barent F. Landstreet
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drinking Driver written by Barent F. Landstreet and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elsie Shore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131784470X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Drunk Driving written by Elsie Shore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preventing Drunk Driving shows what is being done today, in research and practice, to reduce impaired driving and the fatalities and injuries it produces and to curtail the spread of this tragic social epidemic. In this informative book, you’ll discover how current research and prevention programs are increasing the success of designated driver programs. You’ll also find out how communities, friends, and experts are making drinkers aware of their levels of intoxication and discouraging them from driving to keep the roads safer. You’ll see when intervention works, when it doesn’t, and how you can be most effective as a citizen in the fight against impaired driving deaths along your own stretch of the world’s highways and city streets. In Preventing Drunk Driving, you’ll get up-to-date data on how researchers are identifying the most dangerous drunk driving recidivists. Also, you’ll see how increased study and research have led to theoretical models of intervention, assessments of the usefulness of vehicle interlock programs, and the use of mapping to target offenders most at risk. Most importantly, you’ll learn: the results of experiments designed to test methods of increasing designated driving how census-tract mapping can target communities prone to DWI offenses the benefits and limitations of vehicle-interlock devices for the prevention of recidivism how interveners may improve their chances of stopping an impaired person from getting behind the wheel ways that blood alcohol concentration (BAC) feedback stations can reduce DUI incidents“Give me the keys.” “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” These are all sayings we’ve heard--but what are the scientific facts about impaired driving and its prevention in our local communities and neighborhoods? Preventing Drunk Driving analyzes the societal ill of driving under the influence of alcohol and its related death toll from a wide variety of angles.

Author : Chris Overbey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411670221
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drinking and Driving War in America written by Chris Overbey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you drink, take prescription medicine or drive late at night this book is for you. You can take your family to dinner and have a few drinks, drive home and it can land you in prison! Because of the fear Mothers Against Drunk Driving has instilled in the nation, You do not have to be drunk to go to jail. Do you go out with friends and have a few drinks? It can land you in jail. You can drive on prescription medicine only and go to jail. Is the drunk driving problem as big as they say? No, it is a flat out lie. MADD and law enforcement is out to get you. You can get charged for drunk driving even if you are not driving a car! If you think it cannot happen to you, guess again. About 2 million people each year are arrested for drunk driving. Are you one of the more than 10 million of Americans that have been arrested for drunk driving and you are mad at MADD? You need this book. You are about to learn all about Drinking and Driving War in America, and what you can do to stop it.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309031494
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alcohol and Public Policy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1981-02-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: