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Developing a uniform national approach to managing drink driving offenders

Palk, Gavan R. and Sheehan, Mary C. and Davey, Jeremy D. (2004) Developing a uniform national approach to managing drink driving offenders. In Proceedings Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Perth, Western Australia.

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Abstract

Although the need for uniform national laws in a number of areas has been well recognized (e.g. commercial transactions, consumer credit and gun control), drink driving penalties, police enforcement and drink driver rehabilitation/education programs vary across Australian states and territories. Given the national success of breath analysis concentration limits (BAC) and random breath analysis (RBT) in reducing crash fatalities it may be possible to further reduce alcohol-related driving deaths by developing a uniform national approach based on best practice to manage drink driving offenders. The current drink driving legislation, penalties and rehabilitation programs across Australia will be discussed in this paper as a preliminary step towards examining the most effective drink driving prevention model.

Item Type:Conference Paper
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Keywords:drink driving; legislation; rehabilitation; penalties
Subjects:390000 Law, Justice and Law Enforcement > 390100 Law
360000 Policy and Political Science > 360200 Policy and Administration > 360299 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
320000 Medical and Health Sciences > 321200 Public Health and Health Services > 321206 Preventive Medicine
ID Code:6889
Deposited By:Schnyder, Anthony J.
Deposited On:04 April 2007
Alternative Locations:http://www.rsconference.com/RoadSafety/detail/480?check=1
Copyright Owner:Copyright 2004 the authors
Additional Information:For more information, please refer to the conference website (see hypertext link) or contact the author: g.palk@qut.edu.au