The severity of drunken driving as perceived by drunken drivers

✍ Scribed by Derek A. Pocock; Ali A. Landauer

• Book ID: 102619852
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 369 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-4575
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(80)90048-2

✦ Synopsis

Men convicted of drunken driving rated this particular offence as significantly less serious than men from a control group who had no convictions for drunken driving offences. Instead of shame and guilt feelings preventing the person from committing further acts of drunken driving, prosecution and court appearance seems to have a detrimental effect on the offender's attitudes to this type of criminal behaviour.