Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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A brief overview of your interest group (be sure to put its name in bold in the first sentence) and the scope of the article goes here.[1]
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is an orginization who's main goal is to eliminate drunk driving in United States.
History
In May of 1980 Candace Lightner started MADD after thirteen year old daughter was killed in a hit and run accident by a drunk driver in Fair Oaks, California. When it became known to Lightner that the driver was a repeat offender of driving while intoxicated(DWI) she took action and set up the orginization. The aim of this group was to build awareness about the dangers of drunk driving and pass laws agaist the crime.
In 1983 a movie about Lightner's situation was aired on television. After the movie aired publicity for MADD skyrocketed.
One of the first issues that was tackled by MADD was the legal drinking age. Early on teens who lived in New Jersey were able to drive to New York to purchase alcohol, where the legal age to buy was 18 years old. This issue was what originally caught the eyes of the United States Congress. In 1984 they passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. This is considered to be one of MADD’s greatest achievements.
Founding
In 1980, the year MADD was founded, drunk driving behavior was an issue that was generally accepted at the time. That explains why there were approximately 30,000 deaths in America caused by alcohol-related traffic incidents.
This subsection should provide some historical context for the founding of your group, explain the motivations behind it, and describe the steps taken and challenges faced by its founders to get the ball rolling.[2]
Current objectives and activities
The goal of Mothers Against Drunk Driving was and still is to eliminate drunk driving through education and enforcing laws. Along with that, MADD supports the victims of drunk driving incidents. This includes family members from both the innocent and guilty parties. MADD They also work to maintain the age of twenty-one as the legal age for consumption.
MADD’s campaign for the elimination of drunk driving focuses on four major components. These components consist of: highly-publicized law enforcement efforts; implementing current alcohol ignition interlock technologies; exploring advanced vehicle technologies; and mobilizing public support.
In 1985 Candice Lightner resigned from her position with MADD. She had become disgruntled with the direction the organization was going in. She stated that MADD had turned into more of a “neo-prohibitionist” group than DUI Prevention. Candice Lightner started MADD originally to prevent, and hopefully eliminate drunk driving incidents and fatalities. Now the organization focuses more on the prevention of underage drinking, which by all means is an important issue in America, but is not the origional intension.
This section should discuss the group's current initiatives and tactics for influencing political outcomes (which may or may not be very different from its original goals and modus operandi).[3]
Organizational structure
This section should describe the group's organizational structure, including its principal leadership positions and their current incumbents.[4]
Achievements
Since 1980 drunk driving fatalities have been reduced by over 40 percent. Looking at statistics from that year, that is more than 330,000 lives that have been saved. MADD has also succesfully helped establish .08 as the legal blood alcohal content level (bac) for every state in the United States and maintain 21 as the legal age for consumption.
This section should recount the group's major achievements, including but not limited to legislative and/or legal victories.[5]
Public perception and controversies
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References
- ↑ See the "Writing an Encyclopedia Article" handout for more details.
- ↑ John Q. Sample, Why and How Interest Group X Was Founded. City: Publisher, 2015.
- ↑ "The Things We Do and How We Do Them," Interest Group X. 2006. Retrieved July 21, 2009 from http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html
- ↑ First Author and Second Author, "The Organizational Structure of Interest Group X," Fake Journal of Nonexistent Scholarship 36:2 (2015) pp. 36-52.
- ↑ "Major Success for Interest Group X," Anytown Daily News, January 1, 2015, p. A6.