Impact of Court Monitoring on DWI Adjudication

Shinar, David

doi:10.21949/1525355

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Impact of Court Monitoring on DWI Adjudication

1990-12-01
By Shinar, David

English

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Alternative Title:

Impact of court monitoring on driving while intoxicated adjudication
Creators:

Shinar, David
Corporate Contributors:

United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Subject/TRT Terms:

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Adjudication Drunk Drivers Impact Studies Monitoring Traffic Courts
Publication/ Report Number:

DOT-HS-807-702
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21949/1525355
Resource Type:

Research Paper
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Edition:

Final report
Corporate Publisher:

United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Abstract:

Author's abstract: Court monitoring of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) cases is a labor intensive effort conducted by over 300 concerned citizen groups across the U.S. The present project assessed the impact of court monitoring by analyzing the difference in court dispositions (guilty, not guilty, and dismissed) and case outcomes (jail, fine, and license suspension) between monitored cases and non-monitored cases. The database for this study consisted of the court-tried 9137 DWI arrests in the state of Maine within one calendar year (1987).

The results demonstrated that court monitoring is an effective tool in affecting the adjudication process. In the presence of court monitors the conviction rates of DWI offenders are higher and their case dismissal rates are lower than those of drivers not court monitored. Furthermore, once convicted, the likelihood of a jail sentence is higher and the length of the jail sentence is longer for court-monitored DWI drivers than for non-monitored drivers.
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NHTSA - Behavioral Safety Research
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urn:sha256:001a44f578277a118e77ef960d888a7ff590951ec3dc6542941130ff7401de7b
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