Socio-Legal Studies for policies to eradicate drunk driving in Japan.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Ehime University
• Principal Investigator: Ryota KOSAI 愛媛大学, 法文学部, 教授 (20432841)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 飲酒運転 / 条例 / 法社会学 / 刑事政策 / アルコール問題 / 飲酒運転の未然防止 / 再犯防止 / モラル醸成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Japan, the campaigns against drunk driving led to several revisions of the laws to punish the offenders severely. As the results of law revisions and anti-drunk driving campaign, the number of alcohol-related crashes has considerably decreased. But, the deterrent effect of the laws to prevent drunk driving might have already reached its limit. We haven’t eradicated drunk driving yet. The objective of this research is to examine the possibilities and significances of the new Ordinance-based strategy.
The results of this research are as follows: 1) drunk driving countermeasures based on Ordinance are effective in local area, and 2) we found that problems still remain in countermeasures related alcohol problems.

Free Research Field

法社会学