current age of the offender, age of first conviction, prior criminal history, and prior arrest history (Nochajski & Stasiewicz, 2006). Males are more likely than females to receive a subsequent DUI charge (C’de Baca et al., 2001; De Michele & Lowe, 2011; Nochajski & Stasiewicz, 2006) and are mainly between 30 and 40 years old (Beck et al., 1999; C’de Baca et al., 2001; Stasiewicz et al., 2007; ...

Background Research suggests that DUI offenders have an increased prevalence of alcohol abuse and higher levels of impulsivity compared with drivers with no history of DUI. However, reports linking alcohol consumption, impulsivity, and DUI offenses are primarily based on self-reports and fail to identify specific behavioral and cognitive mechanisms that might underlie impulsivity and contribute...

The present research compared Canadian and Spanish youths’ perceptions of the potential benefits and drawbacks of drinking under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and riding with a drunk driver (RDD). Eighty (41 female) Canadian and 87 (71 female) Spanish undergraduates completed a survey asking about their past and forecasted engagement in DUI and RDD, and their perceptions of the benefits and dr...

This research evaluated effects of stricter 0.08% BAC drunken driving law on changes in sex-specific DUI arrest rates, controlling for increased law enforcement resources and shifts in DUI-related behaviors. Another main purpose, the study assessed female/male differences in arrest increases due to broader enforcement standards and efforts. Panel data was assembled for 24 states over 1990-2007 ...

OBJECTIVES : Recent national data suggest that the prevalence of driving under the influence (DUI) is higher in rural areas than in more urbanized areas of the United States. However, little is known about rural DUI offenders, particularly those living in very remote areas. This study was conducted to examine the similarities and differences between rural and urban DUI offenders. Based on recen...

BACKGROUND Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol is a major public health concern, and many individuals continue to drink and drive even after being convicted of a DUI offense. Latinos, in particular, are disproportionately likely to be arrested for a DUI, have higher rates of recidivism, and are more likely to die in alcohol-related accidents than non-Latino Whites. Latinos also experie...

No other single criminal/civil offense connects the forensic science community together with the legal community more than driving while under the influence of alcohol (DUI). Statutory changes along with political pressure have caused DUI to be a very serious and expensive offense. The result has been an enormous increase in DUI defense challenges in recent years with the primary focus on breat...

Breathalyzers, the standard quantitative method for assessing inebriation, are primarily owned by law enforcement and used only after a potentially inebriated individual is caught driving. However, not everyone has access to such specialized hardware. We present drunk user interfaces: smartphone user interfaces that measure how alcohol affects a person’s motor coordination and cognition using p...

Bivalves exhibit an astonishing diversity of sexual systems and sex-determining mechanisms. They can be gonochoric, hermaphroditic or androgenetic, with both genetic and environmental factors known to determine or influence sex. One unique sex-determining system involving the mitochondrial genome has also been hypothesized to exist in bivalves with doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mtDNA....

OBJECTIVE The aim of this naturalistic study was to evaluate the impact of the duration of untreated illness (DUI) on the outcome and treatment response of panic disorder (PD). METHODS Ninety-six outpatients with PD who underwent an 8-week open-label treatment with serotonergic antidepressants were subdivided into two subgroups: those with DUI 1 year. The main ...