Working to Make Your Community Safer
David Wallace
Director, National Center for DWI Courts
Most first-ti me DWI (Driving While Impaired) offenders do not repeat the crime; they learn their lesson from the consequences
of their arrest, prosecution, and conviction. However, one-third of DWI offenders do re-offend, demonstrating an unwillingness
or inability to change their dangerous behavior. We now know that incarceration and traditional punishments are ineffective deterrents for repeat DWI offenders because most are alcohol dependent.
It takes more for them to change. That “more” is DWI Court. DWI Courts are this nation’s most effective strategy for permanently changing the behavior of repeat drunk drivers. DWI Courts hold these individuals accountable and address the addiction that creates so much devastation.
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