Designing a Health/Legal System: A Manual

Details

• Creators:
  Jones, R. K. (Ralph K.) ; Joscelyn, Kent B. ; McNair, John W.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Michigan. Highway Safety Research Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Drunk driving
  • Drunk drivers
  • Jurisprudence and judicial processes
  • Traffic law enforcement
  • Public health
  • Health care services
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-HS-805-138 ; UM-HSRI-79-55 ; NTIS-PB80119332
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1524978
• Resource Type:
  Manual
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Description:
  The report presents a manual for use by state, county, and local organizations in improving their case-disposition process for persons arrested for drunk driving. These processes use the agencies of the traffic law system and the public health system to find and diagnose drunk drivers and to determine the combination of punitive and nonpunitive sanctions best suited to individual drivers. The manual presents information and methods at the system level and indicates information sources for use in developing more detailed designs. The manual describes the general principles of health/legal systems and presents detailed descriptions and assessments of generic types of systems now operating. This material is supplemented with summary descriptions of ten representative systems. Methods for developing an analytic description of one's health/legal system at a design tool are outlined. A three-step method for designing systems improvements is described and illustrated with examples drawn from the experience of operating health/legal systems. An introduction to program evaluation as applied to health/legal systems is provided. An extensive bibliography is included. /Abstract from report summary page/
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DOT-HS-7-01812
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/1199/dot_1199_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 19.92 MB]
• Collection(s):
  NHTSA - Behavioral Safety Research
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d8e6a4f70dc83bfcdf318f86375040fde7a3b8819e742b1e9fb151253ba19159