우리나라는 음주운전의 피해를 줄이고자 음주운전을 적발하여 처벌하면 음주운전이 감소한다는 억제이론에 의해 음주운전에 대한 처벌과 불이익을 강화해 왔다. 형사처벌과 벌금의 상한을 높여 왔고 이에 대한 홍보와 단속방법도 계속 변화해 왔다. 공무원의 경우에는 음주운전 금지에 대한 징계양정이 강화되고 계속적인 공무원 음주운전 금지에 대한 교육과 지시에 따라 음주운전을 회피하기 위한 공무원들의 노력도 증가하고 있는 반면, 음주운전이 계속발생하고 있다. 이번 연구는 공무원이 음주운전으로 징계를 받은 후 제기한 소청사건 중에서 홈페이지에 공개된 사례 100개를 분석하고 연구하였다. 처벌강화와 함께 음주운전 금지 교육과 지시에 대한 인식을 가지고 대리운전 등 음주운전회피를 하고 있는지 여부, 대리운전 등 음주운전회피노력을 하였지만 결국 음주운전에 이르게 된 원인 등을 분석하고 그 대응방안을 찾아보고자 하는 연구이다. 사례분석에서 억제실패의 다음 요인들이 억제실패 사유로 나타났다. 즉, 음주를 한 후에 음주운전금지 지시인식 없음, 음주운전 회피시도 무산, 음주판단착오, 운전자신감, 급한 용무, 긴급피난 등으로 나왔으며, 본인의 판단착오로 인한 것들이 다수 있었다. 분석결과 음주운전 억제 실패에 대한 대책으로는 공무원에 대해 체험적 교육과 지시의 실효성을 제고할 필요가 있으며, 음주전후 음주운전 회피시도 의무화, 음주착오 판단체험 프로그램 도입, 사고위험 체험교육, 긴급피난 회피교육, 직장내 소통과 화합분위기 조성 등의 추가적인 교육방안을 제시하였다.
Recently, The Korean Government ushered in several drunk driving deterrence measures to counter act on public servant’s drunk driving. The discipline guideline for drunk driving of the public servant increased sharply, and government agencies should not tolerate the public servant’s drunk driving. However, the drunk driving cases of the public servant are not decreasing, and constantly occur amid severe discipline circumstances. Therefore, now it is necessary for the government to study the failure of its drunk driving deterrence policy effects on the public servant. The traditional deterrence theory of the criminology is that the official legal sanctions could prevent crimes through producing fear in the criminal’s mind. These deterrence hypothesis has been adopted in the drunk driving prevention policies in our country. This thesis studies on the failure of the deterrence policies on the public servant’s drunk driving in Korea. Specifically, this paper tried to analyse the 100 public servant’s drunk driving cases which are listed and up-loaded on the Korean Public Servant Appeal’s Commission home page. Despite the strong sanctions, education, and directions not to do drunk driving, why the public servant do not stop drunk driving? Does the public servant has no recognition of the stop drunk driving directions of the agency? Or, has they recognition of stop drunk driving and try avoid the drunk driving? And If they have drunk driving recognition, then why they still commit drunk driving? The results of this research show that the main reasons of the public servant’s drunk driving are absence of the recognition of stop drunk driving, the failure of the avoiding drunk driving efforts, miscalculation of drunk level or sober level, overestimating of driving ability, totally forgetting of the drunk driving event, emergency situation, and urgent needs to drive for present and urgent family patients. This thesis recommends several special approaches to prevent drunk driving. 1) enhance the education and directions’ effectiveness of the public servant’s drunk driving policies through education, 2) set a duty on public servant to avoid drunk driving after drinking, 3) introduce a program for the drunkeness test solutions on the internet and provide for the public servants, 4) educate the public servant the danger of the drunk driving 5) educate to avoid emergency drunk driving, 6) select alternative measures for urgent needs, 7) make atmosphere of communication and harmony in the working arena, 8) amend the culture not to force drinking in the agency.