Checkpoint Challenges
By the time an offender gets caught, they are thoroughly convinced by their own experience that the risk of apprehension is minimal. So they’re surprised, hurt, and more often than not, really angry.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 16, 2025 | Public Policy | 0 |
By the time an offender gets caught, they are thoroughly convinced by their own experience that the risk of apprehension is minimal. So they’re surprised, hurt, and more often than not, really angry.
by C. Scott McMillin | May 8, 2025 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 17, 2025 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 29, 2023 | Resources | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 6, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 12, 2022 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
we often find ourselves in the position of addressing what’s really an entrenched pattern of destructive behavior as if it were a one-time error in judgement. Because that’s how the offender sees it.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 5, 2022 | Public Policy | 0 |
I do know that there appears to be a clear link between legalization of recreational cannabis use in a state, and the rate of traffic accidents that occur in its aftermath.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 24, 2022 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Of course, clinicians who work with offenders are accustomed to the occasional client who shows up stubbornly insisting that he or she had consumed no alcohol whatsoever before arrest.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 2, 2021 | Public Policy | 0 |
…the narrower the gap between the incident and its consequences, the greater the deterrent value in terms of the offender’s future behavior.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 5, 2021 | In the News | 2 |
Our alternative is to increase and lengthen our sentences for people who have serious drinking problems, and so far the Legislature hasn’t been willing to do that, and I’m not sure society wants a person — even if they have their second or third DWI — to be put in prison for 25 years.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 18, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
Many hospitals are notoriously lax about testing, and if you really are injured, who can blame them?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 14, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
Considering the number of cognitive errors involved, it shouldn’t be difficult to understand why so many first offenders are eventually arrested for a second offense.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 10, 2020 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
Anyway, it’s clear from this and a host of other examples that for some offenders at least, simple incarceration is never enough.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 24, 2020 | In the News | 0 |
Of course, people who work in treatment know that there’s already solid base of regular users, millions of them, including daily smokers.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 3, 2020 | Addiction Clinicians, Programs | 0 |
I realized it wasn’t really me he was angry with. It was himself. For getting caught.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 27, 2020 | Public Policy | 1 |
I know the public gets upset when they read that DWI arrests are again climbing, but that’s often a good sign.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 20, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
I hate to see drunk driving convictions overturned for procedural errors, because I suspect that eventually, those fatality stats will reverse course and begin to climb again.
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