TY - JOUR
T1 - Specific deterrence, community context, and drunk driving
T2 - An event history analysis
AU - Lee, Chang Bae
AU - Teske, Raymond H.C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2015/3/5
Y1 - 2015/3/5
N2 - Previous studies about recidivism of offenders have focused primarily on the nature of the sanctions and factors specific to the individual offender. This study addressed both individual and community factors, using a cohort of felony-level, driving while intoxicated (DWI) probationers (N = 370) charged in Harris County, Texas. The study investigated specific deterrent effects of sanctions on success or failure of probationers while controlling for the community contexts to observe how informal social control processes contextualize individual-level predictors. Results of a series of event history analyses tracking probationers for a period of 8 years indicated that severity of punishment, swiftness of punishment, criminal history, and completion of DWI education programs significantly affected the probationer's survival time, whereas no significant influence of community contexts on survival time or success was observed. Reducing the felony charge to a misdemeanor, a shorter period of probation, and past criminal history, combined with an almost immediate guilty plea, were significantly associated with short-term failure on probation.
AB - Previous studies about recidivism of offenders have focused primarily on the nature of the sanctions and factors specific to the individual offender. This study addressed both individual and community factors, using a cohort of felony-level, driving while intoxicated (DWI) probationers (N = 370) charged in Harris County, Texas. The study investigated specific deterrent effects of sanctions on success or failure of probationers while controlling for the community contexts to observe how informal social control processes contextualize individual-level predictors. Results of a series of event history analyses tracking probationers for a period of 8 years indicated that severity of punishment, swiftness of punishment, criminal history, and completion of DWI education programs significantly affected the probationer's survival time, whereas no significant influence of community contexts on survival time or success was observed. Reducing the felony charge to a misdemeanor, a shorter period of probation, and past criminal history, combined with an almost immediate guilty plea, were significantly associated with short-term failure on probation.
KW - community contexts
KW - drunk driving
KW - event history analysis
KW - recidivism
KW - specific deterrence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922666034&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0306624X14554256
DO - 10.1177/0306624X14554256
M3 - Article
C2 - 25646012
AN - SCOPUS:84922666034
SN - 0306-624X
VL - 59
SP - 230
EP - 258
JO - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
JF - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
IS - 3
ER -