Rearrest rates after incarceration for DWI: a comparative study in a southwestern US county.
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.
Kunitz
Stephen J
SJ
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY, USA.
Woodall
W Gill
WG
Zhao
Hongwei
H
Wheeler
Denise R
DR
Lillis
Robert
R
Rogers
Everett
E
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