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Finding the Police Before the Police Find Them? Investigating How and Why Motorists Use Facebook for Knowledge of Roadside Drug Testing Locations
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol.51(8), pp.1139-1294
2024
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Abstract
Facebook groups and pages exist that expose the locations of roadside drug testing, potentially undermining police enforcement and enabling punishment avoidance. This study aimed to understand how and why these sites are used, with a focus on Queensland motorists who reported using illicit drugs and/or medical cannabis and used Facebook police location communities. Interviews with 30 participants were conducted. A thematic analysis revealed that participants used police location communities to avoid receiving a charge for driving under the influence of drugs. Upon observation of a relevant roadside drug-testing location on police location communities, participants reported (a) delaying their driving and/or (b) circumventing the operation. Avoidance of roadside drug-testing locations appeared driven by the perception that laws for driving under the influence of drugs were unfair and that a charge for driving under the influence of drugs would negatively impact their life. The findings provide important knowledge regarding police location communities and have implications for how roadside drug testing could be most effectively operated.
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- Title
- Finding the Police Before the Police Find Them? Investigating How and Why Motorists Use Facebook for Knowledge of Roadside Drug Testing Locations
- Authors
- Laura Mills (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - LegacyJames Freeman - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Road Safety Research CollaborationVerity Truelove - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Road Safety Research Collaboration
- Publication details
- Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol.51(8), pp.1139-1294
- Publisher
- Sage Publications, Inc.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1177/00938548241240064
- ISSN
- 1552-3594; 0093-8548
- Copyright note
- © 2024 International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991020698202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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