Driving Themselves to Drink: Qualitative Perspectives From “Hardcore” DUI Repeat Offenders in Ohio

Carlson, Robert G.; Sexton, Rocky L.; Hammar, Lawrence; Reese, Tamara Hansen

doi:10.1080/15332640.2011.623550

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“…Another study, from the United States, reported that repeat drink-drivers were more likely to have a range of criminal history risk factors including being younger at age of first arrest for any offense, younger at first conviction, a history of past alcohol-or drugs-related arrest, crimes against persons and misdemeanors (Dugosh et al, 2013). Robertson and colleagues also reported that drink-driving recidivism over a 3-year period was predicted by criminal convictions (in the 12 months leading up to assessment; Robertson et al, 2016; see also Carlson et al, 2011;DeMichele et al, 2016).…”

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“…In an effort to understand the processes implicated in repeat drink-driving, some researchers have considered the role of mental health difficulties and in particular alcohol addiction, other addictions and psychiatric illness (e.g., Bishop, 2011; Carlson et al, 2011). Multiple studies from the United States reported a relationship between “alcohol dependence disorder” and repeat drink-driving offending (e.g., Cavaiola et al, 2003; Lapham et al, 2006; McMillen et al, 1992; Robertson et al, 2016; Shaffer et al, 2007).…”

Section: Existing Theory and Research On Serious Road Traffic Offendingmentioning

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Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.

Sarma¹,

Cox²

2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Road traffic collisions are preventable events. Those who engage in the most serious forms of road traffic offending are disproportionately responsible for serious injuries and fatalities on the road. Understanding the processes that are implicated in serious road traffic offending can highlight potentially fruitful fulcra for enhancing road safety. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 30 drivers who had been disqualified in the previous 5 years and had regained their driving licenses. Participants were recruited with the support of the national authority for road safety in Ireland (the Road Safety Authority) and self-selected to be interviewed following an extensive recruitment campaign. Transcripts were analyzed using Thematic Analysis. The processes leading to driver disqualification involve a range of interacting factors that include early life experiences, pro-offending cognitions, precipitating stressors and normalization processes. These processes can be usefully synthesized using social ecology models of behavior that focus on the interplay between different personal and contextual factors in determining behavior. Findings suggest that processes leading to disqualification vary widely, pointing to the need for road safety strategies that are sensitive to the complexity of serious road traffic offenses and interventions that have multiple aspects sensitive to the varying processes involved.

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Section: Drink-drivingmentioning

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Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.

Sarma¹,

Cox²

2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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“…46. ; see also, Carlson, Sexton, Hammar, & Reese, 2011;Fynbo & Järvinen, 2011, pp. 774-775;Robertson, Holmes, & Marcoux, 2013;Sykes, Groom, Kelly, & Hopkin, 2010).…”

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Immoral, Deviant, or Just Normal: Drunk Drivers' Narratives of Drinking and Drunk Driving

Fynbo¹

2014

Contemporary Drug Problems

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Contemporary research often relates driving under the influence (DUI) to alcohol addiction and young drunk drivers, in particular, to social deviance. Based on qualitative interviews with 25 convicted drunk drivers, this article studies the relationship between drinking and DUI. The article focuses on three different categories of drunk drivers. In the first, drunk drivers consider addiction to be the main cause of DUI. In the second, they position themselves within subcultural groups often engaged in using illicit drugs, alcohol, and DUI. Both of these categories agree with conceptions of DUI as resulting from alcoholism or social deviance. However, the interviews also revealed a third type of relationship between drinking and DUI. Interviewees in this third category rejected the other two relationships by dissociating themselves from alcoholism and social deviance. Instead, they described themselves and their relationship between drinking and DUI as normal. The article thus concludes that while some drunk drivers view themselves in line with popular conceptions of DUI, others distance themselves from these associations so as to present themselves as normal.

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“…al., 2012;Schmitz et. al., 2014) or repeatedly (Carlson et. al., 2011;Lapham et., al., 2007;Rauch et.…”

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Personality Profiles Of Traffic Offenders: Does It Correlate To Alcohol Consumption?

Slavinskienė¹,

Matulaitiene²,

Endriulaitienė³

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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The aim of this study is to identify personality profiles in the sample of traffic offenders and to find if there are differences in alcohol consumption according to different personality profiles. 683 traffic offenders (611 males, 72 females) participated in the study. The age ranged from 18 to 79 years. A self-administered questionnaire was composed by AUDIT test, Big Five Inventory, Barratt impulsiveness scale (motor-impulsiveness subscale), Aggression scale and Lie subscale. The results show that there are low -risk and high -risk personality profiles of traffic offenders (for both males and females). Those, who have higher expression of impulsiveness, aggression and neuroticism (high risk personality profile), consume alcohol in a hazardous and harmful way. These traffic offenders tend to make more serious road traffic rules violations like driving under the influence of alcohol. Therefore, it could be stated that serious road traffic rules violations might be evaluated as the outcomes of highrisk personality and other problematic behavior such as harmful alcohol consumption.

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Driving Themselves to Drink: Qualitative Perspectives From “Hardcore” DUI Repeat Offenders in Ohio

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.

Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.

Immoral, Deviant, or Just Normal: Drunk Drivers' Narratives of Drinking and Drunk Driving

Personality Profiles Of Traffic Offenders: Does It Correlate To Alcohol Consumption?

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