The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is the highest federal authority in the DUI/DWI field. After reviewing the major DUI/DWI offender tests, NHTSA rated the Driver Risk Inventory (DRI) the best (DOT HS 807 475). Now, after years of research the DRI has been improved. This improved test is the Driver Risk Inventory-II or DRI-II.
Subsequently, several states (Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Nebraska and New Hampshire) have mandated by state law that the DRI-II is their sole DUI/DWI offender test. And when a short list of tests is approved for DUI/DWI offender screening in a state - the DRI-II is often one of the select few.
The DRI-II has been administered to over 1.75 million DUI/DWI offenders. Much of this test data is contained in the cumulative DRI-II database for peer-review research.
2 Ways to Administer
The Driver Risk Inventory II can be administered two different ways: 1. On Behavior Data Systems (BDS) diskettes or USB Flash Drives (www.bdsltd.com), or
2. Over
BDS's internet testing platform (www.online-testing.com).
DRI-II Scales
Truthfulness Scale: The DRI-II is one of the very few DUI/DWI offender tests that has a built-in Truthfulness Scale to identify denial, problem minimization and attempts to "fake good." Client Truthfulness has been linked to lack of treatment progress (Murphy & Baxter, 1997), increased treatment dropout (Daly & Pelowski, 2000), and increased recidivism (Kropp, Hart, Webster & Eaves, 1995; Grann & Wedin, 2002). Driver Risk Scale: As noted in NHTSA's review, the DRI (now the DRI-II) is the only DUI/DWI offender test that has a driver risk measure. Some people are bad drivers and when they drink they become even more dangerous drivers. Multiple substance abuse scales: The DRI-II Alcohol Scale & Drug Scale independently measure alcohol and drug use and, when appropriate the severity of abuse. The DRI-II also includes its reformatted or paraphrased DSM-IV Substance Abuse/Dependency classification scale. These scales help insure adequate understanding of DUI/DWI offenders drinking and drug use.
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