title: Reducing the harmful effects of alcohol misuse: the ethics of sobriety testing in criminal justice.
abstract: Alcohol use and abuse play a major role in both crime and negative health outcomes in Scotland. This paper provides a description and ethical and legal analyses of a novel remote alcohol monitoring scheme for offenders which seeks to reduce alcohol-related harm to both the criminal and the public. It emerges that the prospective benefits of this scheme to health and public order vastly outweigh any potential harms.
authors.affiliation: Dental School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: Karyn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McCluskey
authors.forename: Will
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Linden
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Goodall
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D063425:Binge Drinking / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants / Q000097:blood; D003219:Confidentiality; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004867:Equipment Design; D000431:Ethanol / Q000097:blood*; D045809:Human Rights Abuses; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D016495:Police / Q000941:ethics; D018907:Privacy; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants; D000431:Ethanol