Hardcore Drunk Driving Judicial Education Project

Judicial education for drunk driving solutions and sentencing.

Law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, probation and parole, treatment providers…all play an important role in the swift identification, certain punishment and effective treatment of the hardcore drunk driver.

In 2002, the National Association of State Judicial Educators and The Century Council's National Hardcore Drunk Driver Project convened a national panel to examine the judiciary's critical role in reducing hardcore drunk driving. That judicial summit initiated an ambitious effort to produce a judicial reference resource to help judges more effectively adjudicate hardcore drunk driving cases.

The award winning publication Hardcore Drunk Driving Judicial Guide: A Resource Outlining Judicial Challenges, Effective Strategies and Model Programs and its companion workshop were developed as a result of this initiative.

Recognizing that the court community is uniquely positioned to lead the effort to reduce hardcore drunk driving, The Century Council joined the National District Attorneys Association for the development of the Hardcore Drunk Driving Prosecutorial Guide: A Resource Outlining Prosecutorial Challenges, Effective Strategies and Model Programs.