Immoral, deviant, or just normal: Drunk drivers' narratives of drinking and drunk driving
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Immoral, deviant, or just normal : Drunk drivers' narratives of drinking and drunk driving. / Fynbo, Lars.
In: Contemporary Drug Problems, Vol. 41, No. Summer, 2014, p. 233-260.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Immoral, deviant, or just normal
T2 - Drunk drivers' narratives of drinking and drunk driving
AU - Fynbo, Lars
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Contemporary research often relates driving under the influence(DUI) to alcohol addiction and young drunk drivers, in particular,to social deviance. Based on qualitative interviews with 25convicted drunk drivers, this article studies the relationshipbetween drinking and DUI. The article focuses on three differentcategories of drunk drivers. In the first, drunk drivers consideraddiction to be the main cause of DUI. In the second, they positionthemselves within subcultural groups often engaged in using illicitdrugs, alcohol, and DUI. Both of these categories agree withconceptions of DUI as resulting from alcoholism or social deviance.However, the interviews also revealed a third type of relationshipbetween drinking and DUI. Interviewees in this third categoryrejected the other two relationships by dissociating themselves fromalcoholism and social deviance. Instead, they described themselvesand their relationship between drinking and DUI as normal. Thearticle thus concludes that while some drunk drivers view themselvesin line with popular conceptions of DUI, others distance themselvesfrom these associations so as to present themselves as normal.
AB - Contemporary research often relates driving under the influence(DUI) to alcohol addiction and young drunk drivers, in particular,to social deviance. Based on qualitative interviews with 25convicted drunk drivers, this article studies the relationshipbetween drinking and DUI. The article focuses on three differentcategories of drunk drivers. In the first, drunk drivers consideraddiction to be the main cause of DUI. In the second, they positionthemselves within subcultural groups often engaged in using illicitdrugs, alcohol, and DUI. Both of these categories agree withconceptions of DUI as resulting from alcoholism or social deviance.However, the interviews also revealed a third type of relationshipbetween drinking and DUI. Interviewees in this third categoryrejected the other two relationships by dissociating themselves fromalcoholism and social deviance. Instead, they described themselvesand their relationship between drinking and DUI as normal. Thearticle thus concludes that while some drunk drivers view themselvesin line with popular conceptions of DUI, others distance themselvesfrom these associations so as to present themselves as normal.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 233
EP - 260
JO - Contemporary Drug Problems
JF - Contemporary Drug Problems
SN - 0091-4509
IS - Summer
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