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Works Cited Appleman, Avery. "Minnesota DUIs at Lowest Levels in 20 Years." Web blog post. Minnesota Criminal Defense Law Blog. N.p., 4 Sept. 2014. Web. 09 Dec. 2014. Avery Appleman is the author of an article on the Minnesota Criminal Defense Law Blog. This article is very informative and helped support my argument that stricter laws would be more effective than most laws today. It gave the number of DUI arrests years before stricter laws were enforced and compared it to the number of DUI arrests recently. This source was very reliable for my argumentative paper. Bowles, Scott. "Judges Driven to Extremes to Curb Drunken Drivers." USA TODAY. Feb. 15 1998: n.p. SIRS Issues …show more content…

The main focus of this article was to talk about repeat drunk driver offenders. I found this source to be very useful to support my argument. The writer gave a specific example of a guy who is a repeated offender, and this was the example I was able to use to support my argument. Carlisle, Angela. "Staggered Sentencing For Repeat Dwi Offenders: A New Weapon In The War Against Drunk Driving." Hamline Journal Of Public Law & Policy 25.1 (2003): 97-113. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. Angela Carlisle is the author of this article in the peer reviewed journal of Public Law & Policy. Her article primarily focused on ways to prevent drinking and driving. She also discussed what is already being done with these offenders and if these punishments were effective or not. The main part of her article that I used is the fact that jail time does no good for DWI offenders. Cleary, Jim, and Rebecca Pirius. "An Overview of Minnesota 's DWI Laws." Overview of Minnesota 's DWI Laws (2008): n. pag. Minnesota House of Representatives. Nov. 2008. Web. 5 Dec. …show more content…

This website uses very reliable sources and I have found this website to be very resourceful for this paper. This website list ever states’ driving laws and limits. I used this site to describe what the legal BAC limit is. Fulkerson, Andrew. "Ignition Interlock Monthly Data Reports." International Journal Of Police Science & Management 11.1 (2009): 108-122. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. Andrew Fulkerson is the author of this article in the peer reviewed Journal of Police Science & Management. His article was a study to determine whether or not the ignition interlock device was effective. He compared these results to the results from people who did not have this device in their car that were DWI offenders. I found this source useful so I could explain why this device should be used in more states. Hanson, David J. "Drunk Driving: We Can Prevent It." Drunk Driving: We Can Prevent It. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2014. David Hanson is the writer of this article. He explains how there is not enough being done to prevent drinking and driving. I found this source useful to support my argument that these offenders need more than just a punishment; they need treatment as

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While most people certainly agree that drunk drivers who kill people are bad people, her tone at times loses that professional impersonal voice that many scholarly articles are written. At one point, she compares the act of drunk driving itself to someone who “gets drunk regularly and beats up his wife every time”. She also ends one of her sections with the sentiment that “I feel very little inclination to excuse the chronic alcoholic who drives to a bar, gets loaded, and kills a child standing on the sidewalk.” These statements while agreeable to most people and an effective form of emotional appeal, do remove a bit of credence from the article. These passages rely on disturbing and upsetting the reader, rather than convincing them and represent a jarring change in

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Works cited Ferto, David P. "Impaired Driving: Get the Facts." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 26 Jan. 2017. Web. 15 May 2017. Jones,Jeffery M. “Americans still oppose lowering the drinking age” Gallup Poll Breifing, 24 July 2014, p.2

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