QCT EUROPE: The quasi-compulsory treatment of drug dependent offenders in Europe

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 01.0434-1

Key words (English)

Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Scientific Research; Social Aspects

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLG4-CT-2002-01446

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

This project will produce a sound and comparable evidence base on compulsory and quasi-compulsory treatment (QCT) of drug dependent offenders in Europe. It involves 8 partners with specialist expertise in this area, in 6 European countries.

This project will use four main methods: 1) Descriptions of QCT systems throughout the European Union and Switzerland; 2) Review of literature on QCT published worldwide in the major European languages; 3) Comparable, prospective, cross-national quantitative evaluations of the outcomes of selected QCT systems in eight countries; 4) Comparable, qualitative evaluation of the process of selected QCT systems in eight countries. The products of the research will be widely disseminated and will include a quantitative dataset on the research sample, and a qualitative database on the evaluated QCT systems.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0434-1