title: Rearrest rates after incarceration for DWI: a comparative study in a southwestern US county.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was undertaken to assess a 28-day detention and treatment program's effect, in a multiethnic county with high rates of alcohol-related arrests and crashes, on first-time offenders sentenced for driving while impaired (DWI).
  
  
  METHODS
  We used comparison of baseline characteristics, survival curves of subsequent arrest, and Cox proportional hazards regression to examine probability of rearrest of those sentenced and those not sentenced to the program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Probability of not being rearrested was significantly higher for the treatment group after adjustment for covariates. At 5 years, probability of not being rearrested for the treatment vs the nontreatment group was 76.6% vs 59.9%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results suggest that this county's program has significantly affected rearrest rates for Native Americans, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic Whites.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Kunitz
authors.forename: W Gill
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Woodall
authors.forename: Hongwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Denise R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Wheeler
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lillis
authors.forename: Everett
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000328:Adult; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D019090:Case Management; D005260:Female; D006078:Government Programs; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D035846:Law Enforcement; D008297:Male; D009516:New Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011329:Prisoners / Q000145:classification / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D011330:Prisons; D012008:Recurrence; D044465:White People / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology