Are traffic violators criminals? Searching for answers in the experiences of European countries

Castillo-Manzano, José I.; Castro‐Nuño, Mercedes; Fageda, Xavier

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.12.003

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“…However, their recidivist behavior and the countless traffic offenses they commit show this group of offenders as less concerned with other individuals, i.e., drivers at higher risk of accident and death. Novoa et al (2010) and other similar studies (Castillo-Manzano et al, 2015;Pulido et al, 2010;Watson, Watson, Siskind, Fleiter, & Soole, 2015) show this relationship between frequent penalties and disregard for public safety or causing death and harm and find correlation between a decrease in the number of sanctions and a reduction of the number of accidents and deaths. Our study supports this finding.…”

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“…Psychological research has identified a number of personal traits associated with different types of antisocial behavior, including aggression and violence, vandalism, risk-taking, alcohol and drug abuse, delinquency, and criminal behavior. Castillo-Manzano, Castro-Nuño, and Fageda (2015) have recently investigated the connection between crime and road safety in the 28 member states of the European Union during the 1999-2010 period, revealing that crime rates, and specifically motor vehicle-related crimes, can be predictors of fatal road traffic accidents.…”

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Persistent Traffic Offenders: Alcohol Consumption and Personality as Predictors of Driving Disqualification

Martí-Belda

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Montoro

et al. 2019

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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Traffic safety is an important social problem. Many accidents are due to non-compliance with traffic regulations. Serious or repeated offenses are sanctioned with penalty points or court conviction, and sanctions can lead to disqualification from driving. This paper explores the relevance of alcohol consumption and personality factors as predictors of driving disqualification. The aim of the study is to determine whether the behaviors of persistent offenders and their propensity for law-breaking are related to their characteristics and patterns of drinking. A sample of 358 drivers participated in the study: 126 non-offender habitual drivers and 232 persistent traffic offenders disqualified from driving for serious or repeated traffic offenses, 127 of them after conviction, 105 without conviction (by accumulation of penalties). Participants were given a battery of tests measuring a set of explanatory personality and alcohol consumption factors. We used a crosssectional study design and performed statistical analysis of variance and regression searching for differences among the groups. The results reveal group effects, with significant differences in a number of factors between traffic offenders and non-offenders, and between both categories of offenders in a number of variables, including traffic violations that lead to demerit points and/or loss of a driver's license and crash involvement. Certain variables, including problem drinking, high levels of activity or excitement, penchant for thrill or sensation seeking, and propensity to hostility while driving, can accurately predict group membership. Alcohol disorders are the best predictors of disqualification from driving for serious or repeat traffic offenses, both penalized and convicted.

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Persistent Traffic Offenders: Alcohol Consumption and Personality as Predictors of Driving Disqualification

Martí-Belda

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Montoro

et al. 2019

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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“…More recent work by researchers in Australia examined a decade of crime data for all first-time serious traffic offenders in Western Australia (2004 and 2014) and found that this group are more likely than the average Western Australian to have committed a previous or future initial non-traffic criminal offence (Crosetta et al, 2021). Using panel data for the 28 countries of the European Union, over the period 1999–2010, Castillo-Manzano et al (2015) examined the association between criminal behaviour and per capita traffic fatalities. They tested the hypothesis that crime rates (specifically motor vehicle-related crimes) can be considered predictors of fatal road traffic accidents.…”

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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

Jou

Goh

Hebenton

2022

International Journal of Police Science & 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 acquisitive crime) and driving offences (e.g. dangerous driving, drink driving, driving while disqualified). Put simply, international evidence reveals that a driver's willingness to commit driving offences tends to be associated with a willingness to commit other types of offence. Unlike the Anglophone countries and Europe, no peer-reviewed published research in Greater China has considered this matter empirically. Our article uses data from a data set ( n = 368) of those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving over a 4-year period (2014 − 2018) in Taipei City, capital of Taiwan, to examine associations with prior criminal history and criminal versatility in this sample of convicted drivers. Our analysis indicates the following results: the Taiwanese sample of serious driving offenders had a somewhat low prevalence of prior conviction – over 70% had no prior conviction record. None of the measures used provides evidence for any significant ‘versatility’ on the part of drivers convicted of serious driving offences. Further studies in Taiwan scrutinizing patterns in driving and mainstream criminal offences are needed, as are more nuanced analyses of the versatility of offending. Our article makes recommendations for further research in Taiwan.

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“…The type of sports driving promoted in advertising, with frequent changes in speed, contradicts the aim of reducing emissions (Int Panis et al, 2006). Thus, Castillo-Manzano et al (2015) analysed several factors that can trigger this aggressiveness among drivers, which can lead to road violence; however, these authors did not consider advertising as a possible factor affecting this behaviour.…”

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The potential of car advertising in pursuing transport policy goals: Code of good practices in the Spanish context

Pedrós-Pérez

Martínez-Jiménez

Aparicio-Martínez

2019

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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Climate change, which is mostly caused by CO2 emissions, continues to be a serious environmental problem. The dissemination of correct information regarding the environmental impact of car CO2 emissions and fuel consumption promoted by responsible advertising plays an important role in this problem. This article proposes that the promotion of responsible car advertising could serve as a tool for reducing climate change and decarbonizing transport. Thus, a qualitative and quantitative study was performed to analyse the influence of car advertising on CO2 emissions and attitudes regarding such emissions. The results of this study add value to the limited literature in the field of advertising, cars, and the environment. The analysis of the car advertising sector in Spain in 2007, 2015, and 2016 detected a low presence of good practices. Advertisements lack information regarding energy problems related to mobility, emissions, and climate change. There is an effort to hide CO2 emissions and fuel consumption information in advertising, energy labels are not presented, and information related to efficient driving or moderate vehicle use is lacking. Although the evolution of information regarding emissions and consumption has improved over time with respect to size and location in the advertisements, such data remains marginal. Recent car advertising does not highlight the environmental consequences of the products or offer advice to consumers regarding habits that can help reduce pollution or emissions. Finally, based on this analysis, a detailed code of 28 good practices for the responsible advertising of cars is proposed.

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Are traffic violators criminals? Searching for answers in the experiences of European countries

Cited by 26 publications

References 65 publications

Persistent Traffic Offenders: Alcohol Consumption and Personality as Predictors of Driving Disqualification

Persistent Traffic Offenders: Alcohol Consumption and Personality as Predictors of Driving Disqualification

Criminals on the road? An exploratory study of those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving in Taipei City, Taiwan, 2014−2018

The potential of car advertising in pursuing transport policy goals: Code of good practices in the Spanish context

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