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Author:  Emily Fealey.


Source: Volume 12, Number 01, Winter 2008 , pp.11-13(3)




Impaired Driving Update

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Abstract: 

Articles from various journals dealing with the effect movies have on adolescents’ risk taking while driving,the relation between bar closing times and DUIs,, law enforcement’s effect on DUIs, and drunk driving fatalities: “News, Music Videos, and Action-Movie Exposure and Adolescents’ Intentions to Take Risks in Traffic” by Kathleen Beullens and Jan Van den Bulck; “Investigating the Impact of Extended Bar Closing Times on Police Stops for DUI” by Leana Allen Bouffard, Lindsay Ellen Bergeron, and Jeffrey A. Bouffard 35 (5) J. of Crim. Just. 537-45 (Sept.- Oct. 2007); “The Policing Drunk Driver: Measuring Law Enforcement Involvement in Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving” by Chris S. Dula, William O. Dwyer, and Gildber LeVerne 38 (3) J. of Safety Research 267-72 (2007); “Effects of Legal BAC Limits on Fatal Crash Involvement: Analyses of 28 States From 1976 to 2002” by Alexander C. Wagenaar, ildred M. Maldonado-Molina, inan Ma, Amy L. Tobler, and elli A. Komro J. of Safety Research; “Drunken-Driving Fatalities Seadily Rise” by Ford Fessenden The New York Times, Section 14NJ Sept. 23, 2007);

Keywords: J. of Crim. Just.; J. of Safety Research; The New York Times;

Affiliations:  1: Traffic Safety Advocate.

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