Requiring DUI offenders to install an interlock to reinstate: Effective?

描述(由申请人提供)：车辆酒精互锁系统似乎提供了一种有用的技术，可以减少被缓刑的酒后驾车(DWI)罪犯的再犯罪率。如果驾驶员的血液酒精浓度(BAC)为0.03或更高，这些设备可以防止车辆启动。一系列广泛的研究表明，当互锁装置安装在完全停职的酒后驾车罪犯的车辆上时，大约有65%的人在减少再次犯罪方面有效。然而，当允许在完全暂停期间安装联锁时，只有大约十分之一的DWI违法者会利用这个机会合法地使用联锁驾驶。为了增加违法者安装互锁的动机，一些州要求恢复驾驶执照，这样没有安装就会成为合法驾驶的永久障碍。这项申请申请资金，以延长对82,000多名酒后驾车罪犯的初步研究，这些人在新法律生效后被定罪，并被判处佛罗里达联锁计划，该计划是最早采用这一程序的项目之一。我们的初步研究表明，将连锁作为恢复的先决条件似乎可以提高参与率，但会推迟该计划的实施。这项R21申请中提出的研究将收集佛罗里达州的法律前数据，以确定相对于缺乏这样的法律，要求恢复互锁是否会延误所有DWI违规者、使用者和非使用者的恢复，以及它是否减少了全州范围内的DWI累犯率。 与公共健康相关：酒精点火互锁通常作为吊销执照期间驾驶的一种选择，已被证明通过大幅减少酒后驾车违规者受损驾驶的频率，降低了公众在高速公路撞车中受伤的风险。这项研究将确定一种新的互锁方法--要求酒后驾车违法者将其作为恢复驾驶执照的条件之一--是否通过增加安装互锁的违法者数量并进一步减少再犯罪率来增强互锁对公众健康的好处。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Vehicle alcohol interlock systems appear to provide a useful technology for reducing the recidivism of suspended driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) offenders. These devices prevent the starting of the vehicle if the driver has a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .03 or higher. An extensive set of studies has demonstrated that interlocks are approximately 65% effective in reducing recidivism when installed on the vehicle of otherwise fully suspended DWI offenders. However, when given the option to install the interlock during a period when they would otherwise be fully suspended, only about 1 in 10 DWI offenders takes advantage of the opportunity to drive legally with the interlock. To increase offender motivation to install an interlock, some states are making it a requirement for reinstatement of the driver's license so that failure to install becomes a permanent barrier to driving legally. This application requests funds to extend a preliminary study of more than 82,000 DWI offenders who were convicted after the new law went into effect and sentenced to the Florida interlock program, which was among the first to adopt this procedure. Our preliminary study has indicated that making the interlock a prerequisite to reinstatement appears to increase the participation rate but delays implementation of the program. The study proposed in this R21 application will collect pre-law data in Florida to determine whether relative to the absence of such a law, requiring an interlock for reinstatement delays the reinstatement of all DWI offenders, users and nonusers, and whether it reduces overall statewide DWI recidivism. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Typically offered as an option for driving during part of the license suspension period, alcohol ignition interlocks have been shown to reduce the risk to the public of injury in a highway crash by substantially reducing the frequency of impaired driving by DWI offenders. This study will determine whether a new approach to interlocks-requiring DWI offenders to install them as a condition of driver's license reinstatement enhances the public health benefits of interlocks by increasing the number of offenders who install them and producing greater reductions in recidivism.