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Abstract Although considerable attention has been given to the criminality of repeat drunk drivers About the author The author is an Associate Professor of Justice Administration at the University of Hawai'iWest O'ahu. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked for four years as a line-staff counselor and crisis intervention supervisor at a youth residential psychiatric facility in California. He received a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hawai'i -Manoa. His dissertation was a qualitative ethnography of marijuana (and by extension poly drug use) careers over the span of the War on Drugs. His current research interests include drug use, drug policy, ethnography, corrections, program evaluation, and methodology. His most formative experience was working as a professional and volunteer ski patroller first responder for ten years as a young adult, where the consequences of mistakes were much greater than they are in academia. 4