Making the bad guys good is a Brake seminar exploring best practice education and enforcement techniques to reform traffic offenders. If you are a road safety professional working with traffic offenders in an educational or enforcement capacity, this is a must-attend event.

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Date: Tuesday 14 September 2010, 11am - 4pm (coffee and registration from 10.30am)

Venue: Tally Ho police training centre, central Birmingham. For a map and directions, click here.

Price: Just £75 for Brake subscribers, £85 for non-subscribers. (Road safety practitioners can join Brake’s Road Safety Forum for just £40 a year to receive the discounted registration fee and get fortnightly ebulletins of global road safety research and initiatives, so it pays to join when booking!)

Programme: The seminar brings together practitioners and academics specialising in traffic offender programmes, driver education and psychology to discuss -

• insights into the behaviour and attitudes of traffic offenders and risk-takers on the road
• education programmes - tackling drivers with poor attitudes towards road safety
• practical provision of red light and speed offender courses
• preventing re-offending - what works?

Speakers include:

Dr Cris Burgess, Psychology teaching fellow, University of Exeter

Rider risk reduction for rule-breakers
Personal perceptions of risk on the road and evaluation of capability versus task demands

Ian Aspinall, ACPO Business Manager, National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme

Re-engineering driver offender attitudes
Possible ways forward for the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS)

Dr Fiona Fylan, Reader in Psychology, Leeds Metropolitan University & Brainbox Research

Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy or Happy: making the speeder Snow White

Martin Chidgey, Criminal Justice Manager, Aquarius

Drink-driving: the case for rehabilitation

Mick Doyle, Director of Driver Diversion, A2OM

The value of young driver diversion

Supt Muir Clark, Head of Road Policing, Police Service of Northern Ireland

Helping keep young drivers safe

Julie Townsend, Deputy Chief Executive, Brake

Putting theory into practice - a model for convincing young offenders on safe driving