Intoxication and Cognition: Implications for Police and Drunken Driver Interaction
Author: John J. Gibbs.; Denis Foley.
Source: Volume 12, Number 02, Spring 2008 , pp.27-30(4)
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Abstract:
Alcohol consumption is widely regarded as one of the factors that increase the risk of violence during police-citizen encounters, including traffic stops. This article revisits and reviews established knowledge concerning the interpersonal motives, uses, and sequences characterizing violent episodes and places them in a framework or model suggesting that alcohol consumption affects perception and cognition in ways that increase the chances of police citizen violence during traffic stops.Keywords: University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice; DWI/DUI;
Affiliations:
1: Indiana University of Pennsylvania; 2: Editor.