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Best Drivers in the World: Drink-Driving and Risk Assessment

NCJ Number
236512
Journal
British Journal of Criminology Volume: 51 Issue: 5 Dated: September 2011 Pages: 773-788
Author(s)
Lars Fynbo; Margaretha Jarvinen
Date Published
2011
Length
16 pages
Annotation
This paper analyzes risk assessment and risk behavior in relation to drink-driving.
Abstract
The paper analyses risk behavior as described by a group of convicted drink-drivers. Risk assessment is seen as a part of a complicated process reflecting moral values in specific socio-cultural settings and within a specific framework of time. The respondents' retrospective accounts of their drink-driving are interpreted as part of moral identity negotiations, focusing on four dimensions: drink-driving as non-voluntary behaviour, drink-driving as strategic behavior, drink-driving and control, and drink-driving and 'normalcy'. Central to these negotiations is the fact that many respondents come from social environments (be that friend groups or workmate groups) where drink-driving is common and that they therefore do not regardor did not regarddrink-driving as deviant behavior. (Published Abstract)