CRM 3308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: The Province

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3308
• Professor: Irvin Waller

Document Summary

Drunk driving crashes (substance abuse and driving) 1/3 of fatal traffic crashes are associated with at least one of the drivers having more than the legal limit of alcohol. Issue of who are the risky drivers: strategy to reduce crashes in ottawa, does not account whether particular drivers account for most of these crashes. Seatbelts use (high use in canada though) Strategy is focused on trying to reduce deaths on the road very concerned with outcomes (significant focus on) Ottawa has a gang strategy but it is not as clear as the road safe one they have for driving. Strategy includes: neighborhood cohesion, prevention, intervention, and enforcement & Highly unlikely that anything in this strategy would reduce gang related incidents. Arresting your way out of these problems does not have a lot of impact. In e&s: they added 21 more officers, laid over 800 charges, main part of the gang strategy (even though does not reduce)