Dissertation
Assessing the Implementation and Impact of Spokane County DUI Court
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111005
Abstract
DUI/DWI Court is a relatively new approach that addresses the dangerous conduct of driving under the influence or driving while impaired. It aims to reform chronically impaired drivers by holding offenders accountable and providing treatment for their criminogenic needs. Previous literature, in general, suggests this specialty court is more effective than traditional approaches, but some of the most rigorous studies produced different outcomes. There is also very limited information on the outcome of making this intervention mandatory for all eligible offenders.
This dissertation studies the implementation and effectiveness of a mandatory DUI court—Spokane County DUI Court. The findings show this DUI court is a relatively high-integrity program. It follows most of the best-practice protocol for DUI courts but has several major limitations in its implementation. However, multivariate survival analyses show this program is not more effective than traditional probation in rehabilitating repeated DUI offenders. The reasons why this program is not as successful as expected are explored and policy implementations for DUI courts nationwide are discussed.
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Details
- Title
- Assessing the Implementation and Impact of Spokane County DUI Court
- Creators
- Ruibin Lu
- Contributors
- Craig Hemmens (Advisor)David Brody (Committee Member)Dale Willits (Committee Member)Jacqueline vanWormer (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 155
- Identifiers
- 99900581713701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation