TY - JOUR

T1 - 'The best drivers in the world'

T2 - Drink-Driving and Risk Assessment

AU - Fynbo, Lars

AU - Järvinen, Margaretha Maria

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The paper analyses risk behaviour as described by a group of convicted drink-drivers. Risk assessmentis seen as a part of a complicated process reflecting moral values in specific socio-culturalsettings and within a specific framework of time. The respondents’ retrospective accounts of theirdrink-driving are interpreted as part of moral identity negotiations, focusing on four dimensions:drink-driving as non-voluntary behaviour, drink-driving as strategic behaviour, drink-driving andcontrol, and drink-driving and ‘normalcy’. Central to these negotiations is the fact that manyrespondents come from social environments (be that friend groups or workmate groups) wheredrink-driving is common and that they therefore do not regard—or did not regard—drink-drivingas deviant behaviour.

AB - The paper analyses risk behaviour as described by a group of convicted drink-drivers. Risk assessmentis seen as a part of a complicated process reflecting moral values in specific socio-culturalsettings and within a specific framework of time. The respondents’ retrospective accounts of theirdrink-driving are interpreted as part of moral identity negotiations, focusing on four dimensions:drink-driving as non-voluntary behaviour, drink-driving as strategic behaviour, drink-driving andcontrol, and drink-driving and ‘normalcy’. Central to these negotiations is the fact that manyrespondents come from social environments (be that friend groups or workmate groups) wheredrink-driving is common and that they therefore do not regard—or did not regard—drink-drivingas deviant behaviour.

U2 - 10.1093/bjc/azr067

DO - 10.1093/bjc/azr067

M3 - Journal article

VL - 51

SP - 773

EP - 788

JO - British Journal of Criminology

JF - British Journal of Criminology

SN - 0007-0955

IS - 5

ER -