What are emerging policy issues concerning drunken driving?
Much attention has been placed recently on what is called the “hard-core” drunken driver. This particular type of offender is the subject of a national study, DWI System Improvements for Dealing with Hard Core Drinking Drivers, by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation. This study is the third in a series on drunken driving. The foundation surveyed 900 state court judges and conducted intensive workshops on the problems of and prospects for adjudicating hard-core drunken drivers.The concept of the hard-core drunken driver is still in a formative stage, but it refers generally to someone who repeatedly drives while exceeding a BAC level of .08 or more, but who manages to elude the detection, adjudication, punishment, and monitoring efforts of the criminal justice system. This individual might have been stopped or even arrested for DUI offenses on multiple occasions, but nevertheless continues to drink and drive. The system is unable to curtail or to deter this repeat offender. In fact,
