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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. 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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
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