ADMINISTRATIVE PER SE. PUBLIC POLICY IMPACT EVALUATION USING INTERRUPTED TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS. DISSERTATION

Traditionally, legislators and the judiciary have approached the drunk driving issue on a criminal basis, as reflected in state statutes. Recently, however, several states including Oklahoma have broken with the traditional approach and have adopted an administrative intervention procedure. Such 'administrative per se' laws are designed to decrease drunk driving by increasing the certainty, severity and celerity of punishment. It is important to note that adoption of administrative per se marks a significant shift in power away from the courts and into the hands of an administrative agency. A major objective of this dissertation involves examining and analyzing the deterrent effect of legal policy (administrative per se) on drunk driving, as related to alcohol involved traffic fatalities.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Oklahoma, Norman

  660 Parrington Oval
  Norman, OK  United States  73019-0390
• Authors:
  • Feimer, S H
• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Pagination: 249 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Legal factors; Per se laws; Public policy; Time series analysis; Traffic crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493938
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM