@article{ref1,
title="Recidivism in a cohort of young Australian drinking-drivers",
journal="Medical journal of Australia",
year="1987",
author="Christie, D. and Gordon, I. and Robinson, Karen and Santamaria, J. and O'Brien, M.",
volume="147",
number="9",
pages="427-8, 430",
abstract="Four hundred and sixty-three men aged 18-25 years were referred to a counselling programme in 1975-1977, after their first conviction for an alcohol-related traffic offence. Records of the Victoria Police, and those of the Motor Registration Board, were searched for subsequent alcohol-related traffic offences up to February 1984. Those subjects who had left the State of Victoria or had died were identified, and a &quot;survival&quot; curve was constructed where survival implied freedom from reconviction for an alcohol-related traffic offence. By means of Cox's proportional hazards model, the rate ratios of a number of predictor variables of recidivism were calculated; those of significance were the number of drinks per week, social class, and a history of &quot;family troubles with drinking&quot;. Reduction of alcohol consumption may be a more appropriate goal in programmes that are concerned with the counselling of young drinking-drivers than is attempted modification of the drinking-driving nexus.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0025-729X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}