Enhanced Sanctions for Higher BACs: Evaluation of Minnesota's High BAC Law

摘要

Despite the attention focused on enhanced sanctions for high BAC offenders, the current project represents the first systematic study of the features, implementation, or effects of high-BAC sanctioning systems. The primary objectives of the study were to: determine the effectiveness of high-BAC sanctioning systems; determine whether high-BAC offenders, in fact, receive the specified enhanced sanctions; and determine whether a high-BAC sanctioning system creates additional problems in the prosecution, adjudication, and/or sanctioning systems.