Evaluation of the DUI Court Program in Maricopa County, Arizona

This is the final report of a project that evaluated the effectiveness of a DUI court program aimed at reducing felony DUI offenders’ subsequent alcohol-related traffic violations. The evaluation involved a descriptive and quantitative analysis of the program, and an impact evaluation of the program’s effect on the alcohol-related traffic law conviction recidivism of randomly assigned offenders to the DUI court program and the county’s standard probation program. The evaluation found that the DUI court concept as applied in Maricopa County was effective in reducing the recidivism of felony DUI offenders as measured by the time before a subsequent alcohol-related traffic conviction. The study also found that the DUI court program was more effective in reducing recidivism than the county’s standard probation program for the target group of offenders.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811302.pdf
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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/1936
• Corporate Authors:

  Mid-America Research Institute, Incorporated

  25 Oxford Street
  Winchester, MA  United States  01890

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Department of Justice

  Office of Justice Programs, 810 7th Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20531
• Authors:
  • Jones, R K
• Publication Date: 2011-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 44p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Court operations; Drunk driving; Evaluation; Highway safety; Offenders; Recidivism; Recidivists; Traffic courts; Traffic violations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
• Geographic Terms: Maricopa County (Arizona)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01354077
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-811 302
• Contract Numbers: DTNH22-97-H-65072 (NHTSA) 2000-DC-VX-K008 (DOJ)
• Files: HSL, NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 19 2011 12:53PM