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Hardcore Drunk Driving Can Be Reduced with DWI/DUI Courts
Over two-thirds of drunken driving fatalities in a recent year in the U.S. involved a driver with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .15 or higher. That's about twice the legal limit. DWI offenders tend to fall into two categories:
- People who have made a poor decision and driven after having had too
much alcohol to drink.
- These drivers tend to have relatively low blood alcohol
concentrations (BACs) - These people are usually dissuaded from the crime in the future
by punishment
- These drivers tend to have relatively low blood alcohol
- People who are addicted to alcohol (alcoholics) who are hard-core
repeat offenders.- These drivers tend to have very high and dangerous BACs.
- These people are very resistant to changing their drunken driving
behavior
Convinced that we can't jail our way out of the hard-core repeat offender drunk driving problem, some judges have created DWI courts (sometimes called DUI courts). These innovative courts use substance-abuse interventions and treatment with repeat defendants who plead guilty of driving while intoxicated.
DWI courts are designed to address the root cause of the hard-core drunk driver -- addiction. The evidence indicates that DWI courts are highly effective and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration actively supports them as a major way to reduce the problem of high BAC repeat offenders.
View or download the Hardcore Drunk Driving Judicial Guide. Valuable information can also be obtained at the site of the National Drug Court Institute.
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