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

描述（由申请人提供）：车辆酒精联锁系统似乎提供了一个有用的技术，减少累犯的暂停驾驶，而醉酒（DWI）罪犯。如果驾驶员的血液酒精浓度（BAC）为0.03或更高，这些装置可防止车辆启动。一组广泛的研究表明，联锁装置是约65%的有效减少累犯时，安装在车辆上，否则完全暂停DWI罪犯。然而，当他们可以选择在一段时间内安装联锁，否则他们将被完全暂停，只有约十分之一的DWI罪犯利用机会驾驶合法的联锁。为了增加犯罪者安装联锁装置的动机，一些州要求恢复驾驶执照，以便未能安装成为合法驾驶的永久障碍。这项申请要求提供资金，以扩大对82 000多名DWI罪犯的初步研究，这些罪犯在新法律生效后被定罪，并被判处佛罗里达联锁计划，该计划是第一批采用这一程序的人之一。我们的初步研究表明，使互锁的先决条件，恢复似乎增加了参与率，但推迟了该计划的实施。这项R21申请中提出的研究将收集佛罗里达的法律前数据，以确定是否相对于没有这样的法律，要求恢复的联锁延迟所有DWI罪犯，用户和非用户的恢复，以及它是否减少了全州范围内的DWI累犯。 公共卫生相关性：酒精点火联锁装置通常作为驾照吊销期间驾驶的一种选择，已被证明可以通过大幅降低DWI罪犯受损驾驶的频率来降低公路撞车事故中公众受伤的风险。这项研究将确定是否一种新的方法来联锁，要求DWI罪犯安装他们作为驾驶执照恢复的条件，提高了公共卫生利益的联锁增加罪犯谁安装他们的数量，并产生更大的减少累犯。

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.