“While higher-risk drivers are a small portion of the population, they pose a significant threat to innocent motorists. On a typical weekend night, only one percent of drivers have a BAC of .15 or higher, but high BAC...
Repeat offenders are a significant portion of the drunk driving problem – about one-third of all DUI arrests are of people who have been previously convicted of drunk driving. (Fell, 1995) These are offenders who...
Child abuse or neglect: When a child’s parent or custodian, by reason of cruelty, mental capacity, immorality or depravity, is unfit to properly care for him or her, neglects or refuses to provide necessary physical...
Often, drunk driving is a symptom of a person's alcohol abuse or alcoholism. Over a three-year period, one judge sentenced all first offenders to clinical evaluation. Over eighty percent were assessed as problem drinkers...
