Treatment versus Punishment for Drug Addiction: Lessons from Austria, Poland, and Spain

111 Pages·2015·1.76 MB·English

by  Richard Soyer

SPRINGER BRIEFS IN CRIMINOLOGY
Richard Soyer
Stefan Schumann Editors
Treatment versus
Punishment for
Drug Addiction
Lessons from
Austria, Poland,
and Spain
123
SpringerBriefs in Criminology

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10159

Richard Soyer (cid:129) Stefan Schumann
Editors
Treatment versus Punishment
for Drug Addiction
Lessons from Austria, Poland, and Spain
Editors
Richard Soyer Stefan Schumann
Department for Corporate Criminal Department for Corporate Criminal
Law and Criminal Justice Law and Criminal Justice
Johannes Kepler University of Linz Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Linz , Austria Linz , Austria
ISSN 2192-8533 ISSN 2192-8541 (electronic)
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
ISBN 978-3-319-18823-2 ISBN 978-3-319-18824-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18824-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015945167
Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
© The Author(s) 2015
T his work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of
the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation,
broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information
storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology
now known or hereafter developed.
T he use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication
does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant
protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
T he publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book
are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the
editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors
or omissions that may have been made.
Printed on acid-free paper
S pringer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media
(www.springer.com)
Contents
Part I On Drug Laws and Medical Treatment
of Drug-Addicted Offenders
1 Austria ........................................................................................................ 3
Stefan Schumann and Birgit Köchl
2 Poland......................................................................................................... 15
Krzysztof Krajewski and Grzegorz Wodowski
3 Spain ........................................................................................................... 25
Marta Torrens and Victor Javier Costela Ruiz
Part II Drug Laws and Its Application in Practice:
Experiences and Attitudes of Public
Prosecutors/Judges and Treatment Providers
4 Treatment and Punishment of Drug-Addicted Offenders: Insights
from a Quantitative Empirical Survey.................................................... 39
Christoph Weber , Stefan Schumann , and Richard Soyer
5 Attitudes Towards Drug Laws in Qualitative Interviews ...................... 65
Birgit Köchl , Edyta Drzazga , and Paola Rossi
Part III Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
for Drug Policy and the Application of Drug Laws
6 Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations for Drug
Policy and the Application of Drug Laws ............................................... 89
Stefan Schumann and Richard Soyer
Index ................................................................................................................. 99
v

Contributors
Edyta Drzazga Department of Criminology , Jagiellonian University Kraków ,
Kraków , Poland
Birgit Köchl Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna ,
Austria
Krzysztof Krajewski Department of Criminology , Jagiellonian University
Kraków , Krakow , Poland
Paola Rossi I nstitute of Neuropsychiatry and Addiction (INAD), Hospital del Mar
Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Parc de Salut MAR , Barcelona , Spain
Victor Javier Costela Ruiz University of Granada/Autonomous University of
Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
Stefan Schumann Department for Corporate Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ,
Johannes Kepler University Linz , Linz , Austria
Richard Soyer Department for Corporate Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ,
Johannes Kepler University Linz , Linz , Austria
Marta Torrens Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Addiction (INAD) , Hospital del
Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Parc de Salut MAR, Department of
Psychiatry, Autonomous University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
Christoph Weber University of Education Upper Austria , Linz , Austria
Grzegorz Wodowski Monar Treatment Center , Krakow , Poland
vii

About the Editors
Stefan Schumann i s a Postdoc-researcher at the Johannes Kepler University of

Linz, Department for Corporate Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Austria. Before
joining the University of Linz in 2012, he was a researcher and lecturer in criminal
law, criminal procedure law and European law at Austrian and German Universities.
He also worked at the German Foreign Offi ce, and passed the German Bar exam. He
is a member of the Advisory Board of the Legal Experts Advisory Panel of Fair
Trials International, and he has been invited as an expert for criminal justice issues
both by the EU Commission and the UN Offi ce on Drugs and Crime.
Richard Soyer is Professor of Criminal Law at the Johannes Kepler University of

Linz, Department for Corporate Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Austria, and
Senior partner at the law fi rm Soyer Kier Stuefer, in Vienna, which is one of the
leading Austrian law fi rms specializing in criminal law. Since 2012, he has been
Chairman of the Commission for Criminal Law Reform of the Austrian Bar
Association, and he is Spokesperson of the Austrian Criminal Bar Association since
2002. He forms part of the experts’ advisory board on drug laws and substitution
treatment founded by the Austrian Ministry of Health in 2013, and of the editorial
board of the legal review “New Journal of European Criminal Law (NJECL)” and
of the Austrian “Journal für Strafrecht (JSt)”.
ix