Effectiveness of customized Victim Impact Panels on first-time DWI offender inmates.
This study investigates the effectiveness of a customized Victim Impact Panel (VIP) on reducing 'driving while impaired' recidivism, alcohol consumption and drinking and driving behavior. The study was conducted at a 28-day Detention/Treatment Program in a largely rural county in northwestern New Mexico. Study participants were randomly assigned to attend or not attend a VIP while participating in the program for court-defined first-time driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders. There were no significant differences between the two groups on alcohol consumption, drinking and driving behavior, or recidivism within 2 years. These findings support the findings of other studies that VIPs do not produce a differential benefit with regards to recidivism of those convicted as a first-time DWI offenders.
Wheeler
Denise R
DR
Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions, The University of New Mexico, 2650 Yale SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106, USA. deniserw@unm.edu
Rogers
Everett M
EM
Tonigan
J Scott
JS
Woodall
W Gill
WG
D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003153:Community Health Services; D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009516:New Mexico; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D016896:Treatment Outcome