Citation

Ross HL, Klette H, McCleary R. J. Traffic Med. 1992; 20(2): 59-70.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine)

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Abstract

Liberalization and rationalization of laws pertaining to drunk driving were the trends perceived and documented in the authors visits to Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark in 1983. This paper reports the continuation of these same trends through the balance of the 1980s. It was found that safety establishments are now more concerned with increasing the certainty of punishment through broad use of sobriety checkpoints and discretionary law enforcement. Scandinavians are also confronting evidence that current policies related to drunk driving, especially those based in deterrence, may be reaching their limits of effectiveness.

Keywords

Ethanol impaired driving