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NCJ Number:	152736

Title:	Relationship Between Drug Arrests and Driving Risk

Author(s):	L A Marowitz

Date Published:	1994

Page Count:	72

Sponsoring Agency:	California Dept of Motor Vehicles Sacramento, CA 95809 National Institute of Justice/ Rockville, MD 20849 NCJRS Photocopy Services Rockville, MD 20849-6000

Publication Number:	CAL-DMV-RSS-94-142

Sale Source:	National Institute of Justice/ NCJRS paper reproduction Box 6000, Dept F Rockville, MD 20849 United States of America California Dept of Motor Vehicles Research and Development Section 2415 First Avenue Sacramento, CA 95809 United States of America NCJRS Photocopy Services Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 United States of America

Document:	PDF

Type:	Survey

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This study compared driving records of 106,214 persons arrested for drug offenses in 1989 with 41,493 comparison drivers selected from the general driving population; drug offender subjects were drawn from the California Department of Justice's Monthly Arrest and Citation Register.

Abstract:	Drug arrestees were grouped according to six summary offense categories used by the Department of Justice: felony narcotics, marijuana, dangerous drugs, other drugs, misdemeanor marijuana, and misdemeanor other drugs. Data were examined 1 year prearrest, 1 year postarrest, and 2 years postarrest. Each drug arrestee group had significantly more traffic violations and total accidents than the control group, except for 2-year postarrest accidents for the felony narcotics group. Measures of accident culpability showed drug arrestees to be more responsible for accidents in which they were involved than the general driving population. Specifically, drug arrestees committed 3.04 times as many traffic violations as the general driving population during the year prior to arrest, 2.22 times as many during the year after arrest, 2.02 times as many during the 2 years after arrest, and 2.38 times as many over the entire 3-year period. Drug arrestees were involved in 1.66 times as many traffic accidents as the general driving population during the year prior to arrest, 1.45 times as many during the year after arrest, 1.34 times as many during the 2 years after arrest, and 1.45 times as many traffic accidents over the entire 3-year period as the general driving population. Findings provide a public safety justification for Federal and State initiatives designed to institute driver licensing actions against drug offenders. 40 references, 12 tables, and 8 figures

Main Term(s):	Drug offenders

Index Term(s):	California; Driving Under the Influence (DUI); Drug law offenses; Highway safety; Marijuana; Traffic accidents; Traffic law enforcement; Traffic offenses



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