TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Reducing Recidivism in Driving While Disqualified - A Treatment Evaluation
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Bakker, LW
A1  - Hudson, Stephen M.
A1  - Ward, Tony
SP  - 531
EP  - 560
VL  - 27
IS  - 5
N2  - Driving while disqualified, that is, during a period of license revocation, represents a serious and recurrent social problem: About 54% of convicted individuals are reconvicted in the ensuing 6 years. This article briefly outlines a relapse-prevention cognitive-behavioral treatment program for offenders convicted of driving while disqualified. Results indicate that the 144 treated offenders were reconvicted of further violations of license revocation at a significantly lower rate than offenders in a matched comparison group. Although no difference was found for subsequent drunk-driving convictions, it appears that the program may have reduced other subsequent criminal offending. In addition, there were significant pre- to posttreatment changes on a number of relevant social competency variables. These results provide support for the efficacy of a relapse-prevention approach to this group of offenders and for identification of disqualified drivers as a distinct subgroup of driving offenders.<p />
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SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -