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Citation

Lavelle JM, Hovell MF, West MP, Wahlgren DR. J. Appl. Behav. Anal. 1992; 25(4): 885-892.

Affiliation

Center for Behavioral Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, California 92182-0405.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Wiley-Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1478911

PMCID

PMC1279773

Abstract

The Colorado Occupant Protection Project (COPP) intervention provided police with brief instruction concerning the importance of citations for drivers' failure to use child safety seats and special coupons to accompany citations. Coupons were exchangeable by drivers for a safety seat and brief training in its use, plus a waiver of the $50 citation fine. Over 4.5 years of archival records were employed, using an ABA design and a comparison community to evaluate the program. Few tickets were issued for nonuse of safety seats during the 3-year baseline in either community. Citations for nonuse of safety seats increased to over 50 per month during the intervention period at the test site, whereas rates remained essentially zero at the comparison site. After the COPP intervention was removed at the intervention site, citation rates for nonuse of safety seats decreased to about 15 per month. Differences between intervention conditions and settings were statistically significant. During the intervention, officers were 44 times more likely to write citations than were controls. Results suggested that a behavioral program can increase police citation writing for child protection purposes.

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