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Monday, September 17, 2007

DUI Effects After Conviction

Its no surprise that current DUI Law mandates that DUI punishments cause problems in your personal life in the short term. With punishments such as temporary loss of license, community service, fines, alcohol education and assessment, etc it forces you to do some rearranging of your personal life.

But what isnt always known by most is that the effects of DUI will last for years, even a decade. The punishments actually serve as a barrier from getting past the offense and moving on with your life for many years to come. This is because the initial punishments cause a domino effect of problems that can propagate through several years of someones life.

First, youre forced to take a considerable amount of time off from work to perform your community service which usually involves picking up litter on the side of the highway. If youre paid by the hour thats a considerable loss of income! If youre paid in salary there goes your whole vacation allotment for the entire year (if you havent used it up already). This is assuming that you even have a way to get to work since your license has been temporarily suspended. The irony of all of this is that with all of this commotion youre likely to lose your job while you need money to pay all of the fines!

Potentially, you have someone who has either lost their job or has lost a considerable amount of income by not being able to attend employment. They are forced to pay the court fines and fees along with all of their other monthly bills on an even smaller income then they had before the offense. So what is happening is all of your monthly expenses are rapidly increasing but your income has either ceased to exist or significantly decreased.

If they lost their job due to the DUI then they now face the challenge of trying to find a new job to secure some income but dont have a drivers license for transportation and then also have to disclose on the job application that they have been convicted of a DUI. This makes finding any new work near impossible.

What does this do to someones mental state? It makes them very emotional and very unstable. Couple these feelings of anxiety with the animosity that a large percentage of people feel when they get a DUI. The animosity comes from the fact that a lot of people are wrongly accused and convicted of this offense because so much discretion is left up to the police officer during a dui stop. Low BAC laws and political pressure funnel more and more innocent people into the DUI system everyday.

What is the likelihood of a repeat offense when the punishments do this to a person? The persons stress level and mental state has completely deteriorated and depression is setting in. Theyre worrying about bankruptcy and future employment plans but at the same time are unable to help themselves because the courts have handicapped them.

We're all for punishments for people that break the rules but the punishment has to fit the crime. It has to be rehabilitative in nature if we actually want to fix the problem. The current punishments instigate repeat offenses and worsen the problem instead of fixing it.

The Information Association, LLC publishes DUI cost saving information for those with DUI related offenses. Their list of publications include the leading industry publication "The DUI Process Manual" which can be found at http://www.duiprocess.com

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