This may tie to overall death figures in driving accidents, which seem to occur more with men than women (Enterline, 1961).

DWI treatment is highly political, and highly contested. There is a considerable debate between those who feel that drunk drivers should be punished, and those that feel that they should be rehabilitated, with states like Virginia passing the death penalty for those who kill others while driving drunk (Jump, 2007).

Most literature about court and legal treatment of DWI offenders is community-based. There is a good deal of information generated in a few areas of the country where there is particular public pressure against drunk drivers. New Mexico, for example, has the highest DWI rate per capita of any state in the U.S. The Bernalillo County Court (which includes Albuquerque) has a particularly tough DWI court, patterned on work done in Minneapolis and Dade Country, Florida (NDCI, 2007). According...
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