TY - JOUR T1 - Reducing the harmful effects of alcohol misuse: the ethics of sobriety testing in criminal justice JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 669 LP - 671 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2011-100304 VL - 38 IS - 11 AU - David Shaw AU - Karyn McCluskey AU - Will Linden AU - Christine Goodall Y1 - 2012/11/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/38/11/669.abstract N2 - Alcohol use and abuse play a major role in both crime and negative health outcomes in Scotland. This paper provides a description and ethical and legal analyses of a novel remote alcohol monitoring scheme for offenders which seeks to reduce alcohol-related harm to both the criminal and the public. It emerges that the prospective benefits of this scheme to health and public order vastly outweigh any potential harms. ER -