'The best drivers in the world': Drink-driving and risk assessment

British Journal of Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 773-788

  Fynbo, Lars ^a   Järvinen, Margaretha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

control; Drink driving (DUI); identity; qualitative method; risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051985176     PISSN: 00070955     EISSN: 14643529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azr067     Document Type: Article

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