Citation

Ross HL. J. Legal Stud. (Chicago) 1975; 4(2): 285-310.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, University of Chicago Press)

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Abstract

Throughout the world, people concerned with the problem of drinking and driving have a sore the impression that in Scandinavia- Particularly in Sweden and Norway- that problem has been controlled by means of law. Swedish and Norwegian laws on drinking and driving have, in the past, been distinguished from the laws of other nations by their use of prison as the routine and all day and by the prohibition, not(much while driving, but of attaining a specified level of blood-alcohol as determined by scientific tests of bodily substances. To date, however, very little information other than personal experiences and addict oats has been provided by the Scandinavians and their admirers to support the claim that the Swedish and Norwegian legal approach has the turd drinking drivers. This report presents the findings of a three-month visit to Scandinavia for the purpose of obtaining systematic evidence concerning this deterrents hypothesis for evaluation by the technique of interrupted timeseries analysis

To visit found that the widespread belief in the deterrent effect of the Swedish and Norwegian laws has little solid support. The arguments appearing in the Scandinavian literature are inconclusive, and the application of interrupted timeseries method to the available data is not for a support for the current hypothesis. The impression that there is strong and convincing evidence to believe that the Scandinavian laws have detergent drinking and driving is all. This impression they be fairly characterized as "the Scandinavian myth."

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