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> Spatial Concordance of DWI Arrests and Alcohol-Related Traffic Accidents (project) > Driving while intoxicate (DWI)

Researchers from the Justice Center and the UAA Center forAlcohol and Addiction Studies explored the disposition of subjects arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI) in order to develop a better understanding of the DWI adjudication process within the Anchorage criminal justice system. The study was intended to enhance understanding of the criminal justice system's capacities and resources to handle DWI offenders by examining the flow of DWI suspects through the criminal justice system from arrest to disposition and to provide information necessary to determine where programs are needed and will establish benchmarks for future program evaluation and needs assessments.
     Under the project, researchers conducted a literature review that examined other studies relating to legal and extralegal factors affecting court processing of offenders. Records of the Anchorage Police Department, the Third Judicial District of the Alaska Court System, the Anchorage Municipal Prosecutor, and the Anchorage District Attorney were reviewed to collect data relating to the DWI arrests and court dispositions during 1996.

Products

• Dispositions of DWI Arrestees: Anchorage, 1996. By Robert H. Langworthy and Peter Crum. Report prepared for Anchorage Safe Communities. Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, July 1999.
• "Disposition of DWI Arrests in Anchorage: Profiles, Filings and Prosecutions". Alaska Justice Forum 16(3), Fall 1999.