DELINQUENCY OF JUVENILES AND ADOLESCENTS ARISING FROM ALCOHOL

ALKOHOLBEDINGTE DELINQUENZ JUGENDLICHER UND HERANWACHSENDER

RESULTS OF BLOOD ALCOHOL ANALYSES AND OTHER DATA PERTAINING TO JUVENILES AND ADOLESCENTS (13 TO 20 YEARS) WERE EVALUATED STATISTICALLY. THE PROPORTION OF THIS AGE GROUP VARIES BETWEEN 9 AND 13% OF THE TOTAL CASES. THE PROPORTION OF YOUNGER PERSONS (15 TO 18 YEARS) HAS INCREASED BETWEEN 1961 AND 1976, WHEREAS THE PROPORTION OF 19 TO 20 YEAR OLDS HAS DECREASED. ABOUT 64% OF THE CASES TESTED FOR BLOOD ALCOHOL INVOLVED TRAFFIC OFFENCES, AND 36% GENERAL CRIMINAL CASES. OF THE TRAFFIC OFFENCES 33 TO 38% WERE DRUNKENNESS WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES, AND 62 TO 67% INVOLVED ACCIDENTS DUE TO ALCOHOL. REGARDING THE BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT A CLEAR TREND TO HIGHER VALUES WAS OBSERVED. IT IS CLEAR THAT ALCOHOL IS BEING CONSUMED AT AN EARLIER AGE AND IN LARGER QUANTITIES. THE OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE ALARMING INCREASE IN THE MISUSE OF ALCOHOL BY JUVENILES IS THEREBY CONFIRMED.

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  • Authors:
    • MEBS, D
    • VON LUEPKE, H
    • GERCHOW, J
  • Publication Date: 1977-9

Language

  • German

Media Info

  • Pagination: 331-45
  • Serial:
    • Blutalkohol
    • Volume: 14
    • Issue Number: 5
    • Publisher: Bund gegen Alkohol im Strassenverkehr eV
    • ISSN: 0006-5250

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01300538
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
  • Files: ITRD
  • Created Date: Nov 21 2010 7:53AM