Additional publications for
Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws
The Center for ENFORCING THE UNDERAGE DRINKING LAWS The Training Center develops publications to assist states and communities in the enforcement of underage drinking laws. Publications can be downloaded or ordered at no charge.
A Guide for Enforcing Impaired Driving Laws for Youth
Discusses the problem of impaired driving among youth and the importance of enforcement in this population. Describes how to increase the visibility and impact of zero tolerance laws for reducing underage drinking and driving. Describes barriers to enforcing impaired driving laws with youth and techniques for overcoming these barriers.
Guide to Conducting Alcohol Purchase Surveys
This guide provides step-by-step information on how States or localities can conduct retail compliance surveys to determine how many and what kind of retail establishments sell alcohol to underage purchasers. Use of the information from this survey for generating community awareness, guiding enforcement efforts and measuring and monitoring progress is discussed.
A Guide to Zero Tolerance and Graduated Licensing: Two Strategies that Work
This guide describes the evaluation literature supporting two important tools for reducing impaired driving among youth. It discusses the barriers to implementing these two strategies and ways of overcoming barriers and maximizing effectiveness.
How to Use Local Regulatory and Land Use Powers to Prevent Underage Drinking
This brief document provides communities with information on some of the key regulatory strategies that can be used to improve environments at the local level to reduce youth access to alcohol.
A Practical Guide to Preventing and Dispersing Underage Drinking Parties
Describes how underage drinking parties are a particularly common and dangerous source of alcohol. Discusses strategies for preventing underage parties through information gathering and deterrence. Lays out the essential elements of party containment and dispersal and offender processing.
Preventing Sales of Alcohol to Minors: What You Should Know About Merchant Education Programs
Education and training of merchants and servers who sell alcohol are intended to promote voluntary compliance with laws and regulations governing the sale of alcohol to minors. Education programs can be provided both for off-sales outlets and on-sales outlets. These programs may also be conducted as part of a more general approach to responsible beverage service training.
Regulatory Strategies for Preventing Youth Access to Alcohol: Best Practices
This document identifies the various types of laws that can be used to restrict minors' access to alcohol and to enhance enforcement efforts. The characteristics of well-crafted laws are described and common loopholes pointed out. The information can be sued to identify needed changes in legislation as well as opportunities for better enforcement.
Strategies to Reduce Underage Alcohol Use: Typology and Brief Overview (Also in Spanish)
This document provides a summary of various strategies commonly used to reduce underage drinking and indicates the level of effect that might be expected from each strategy. The information is designed to assist States in setting priorities for activities to be funded with block grant money.
Tips for Soliciting Cohesive Enforcement Program Plans
This brief document provides State Coordinators with a format for constructing requests for proposals that are likely to elicit cohesive and effective plans from local communities.
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