[The Netherlands Alcohol-Traffic Project].

In this article a survey on the three Dutch Alcohol Courses is given, which are constructed as short information-projects. They all were first developed in Assen, but meanwhile one of them is in use everywhere in the Netherlands. While these courses are rather efficient in increasing knowledge and influencing attitudes of people, they are less successful in preventing recidivism. Nevertheless these courses are important supplements to the penal sanctions we use traditionally as they strengthen an integrated penal system that fits with modern democratic principles.