Institutional Responses to Drug Demand in Central Europe
Institutional Responses to Drug Demand in Central Europe

Author: Flip Maas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-26

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1000160629

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This title was first first published in 2002: Understanding the link between institutional contexts and drug problems is crucial to the process of developing appropriate drug policies and drug demand reduction strategies. However, this link is too often taken for granted, with most drug-related research relying on epidemiological, bio-medical or clinical approaches, ignoring the social contexts in which drug use finds its causes and where its consequences are most visible and hardest felt. This book analyses the institutional responses to the drug problem in the States of Central and Eastern Europe, providing conclusive evidence that the drug problem is a social one and that its causes emerge from a broad array of social factors. Charting the changing policy perceptions and attitudes towards drugs and related problems alongside new organizations designed to counteract drug-related problems, the book provides important new insights into one of the most important problems confronting nations around the world.

European Disability Pension Policies
European Disability Pension Policies

Author: Christopher Prinz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 1351751700

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This title was first published in 2003. During the last twenty years, the longer-term sustainability of social insurance systems has become a major issue in all European countries. Analysts and governments are increasingly alarmed at the growth in the number of disability benefit recipients, and the expansion of disability benefit schemes via increasing benefits, broadening coverage and easing access. While policy measures differ widely, policy goals tend to converge. This book analyses and compares the often controversial disability benefit policies in eleven European countries, examining their rationale, impact and outcome, and the direction of reform in the future. It will make fundamental reading for specialists in disability, social protection and public economics, and for Social Policy academics, researchers and students generally.

Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe
Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe

Author: Yuri Kazepov

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1351904035

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The workings of multi-level governance -- institutional choices concerning centralisation, decentralisation and subsidiarity -- are widely debated within European public policy, but few systematic studies assessing the effects of changing divisions of power for policy-making have been carried out. This volume offers an assessment of the workings of multi-level governance in terms of social welfare policy across different clusters of European states -- Nordic, Southern European, Central and East European. This book reports on a major comparative study at the European Centre for Social Welfare policy and Research, which included partners from univerisities in Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Spain and Switzerland. It reports on three particular policy areas: social assistance and local policies against poverty; activation and labour market policies; and care for the elderly. The authors describe different starting points, strategies and solutions in European countries which are facing similar challenges and could thus learn from each other. They explore the differences between European welfare regimes in terms of territorial responsibilities, the changes that have taken place over the past few years and their effects. The book is distinctive in highlighting comparative transversal and transnational issues of multi-level governance in social welfare policies, rather than presenting country reports.

Mainstreaming Ageing
Mainstreaming Ageing

Author: Asghar Zaidi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 1351920952

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The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, is the first international agreement that specifically recognises the potential of older people to contribute to the development of their societies. In monitoring its implementation two key approaches are evident: a qualitative bottom-up participatory approach and an approach that uses quantitative indicators to monitor sustainable progress and policies. With the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, playing a pivotal role in the monitoring of the implementation process, one of its key tasks has been to develop a list of 'indicators of achievement'. This book contains extended and revised versions of policy briefs and background papers that support the implementation monitoring process. The analyses included in these chapters make concrete suggestions towards quantitative indicators, with the aim of assisting national governments in mainstreaming ageing in their policies. The contributors provide an overview of the current situation with respect to population ageing and its consequences and also provide projections for the future. The book also includes the final list of quantitative indicators that arose out of consultations with international experts, related to the four main topics addressed: demography, income and wealth, labour market participation, and social protection and financial sustainability.

Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies
Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies

Author: Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780754677758

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This innovative study reconceives the standard distinctions between 'hard-core' & 'recreational' drug users in terms of their social position. The editors argue that this is closely related to consumption patterns rather than drug choice, & reveal that two relatively homogenous drug worlds exist within each of the study sites.

Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond
Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond

Author: Josine Junger-Tas

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 0387959823

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Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond: Results of the Second International Self-Report Delinquency Study presents the status of juvenile crime and delinquency and its backgrounds in many of the European Union member states as well as in the United States, Canada, Venezuela and Surinam. The book includes information on key issues in juvenile delinquency such as victimization of young people, alcohol and drug use and its relation to juvenile crime, involvement in youth gangs, immigration, family and school and neighborhood situations. It provides insight into different views on what can be considered juvenile crime; what acts are subsumed in its definition and when we can speak about structural delinquent behavior. These insights are based on self-reported information systematically and simultaneously collected from about 70,000 12-15 year old youths in 28 countries. Until recently, the self-report methodology has not been applied on such a large scale in an international context. The results of this survey provide new and unexpected data about those young people who structurally commit criminal acts, as well as on the frequency of the behavior and the conditions that have an impact on offending. The wealth of descriptions and insights in delinquency of all these countries will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners because of the special character of the publication; it is a book of reference to everyone interested in the backgrounds of juvenile delinquency.

Well-being of Older People in Ageing Societies
Well-being of Older People in Ageing Societies

Author: M. Asghar Zaidi

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780754675969

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Asghar Zaidi poses answers to the question of how we can measure and conceptualize the well-being of older people given the context of our ageing populations, by focusing on the future research agenda and policy reforms necessary to maintain a decent well-being.This title will be essential reading to anyone with an interest in gerontology and the effect society, public policy and governance can have on the welfare of older people.

Integrating Health and Social Care Services for Older Persons
Integrating Health and Social Care Services for Older Persons

Author: Jenny Billings

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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This volume offers a European consensus on how to integrate health and social care services for the elderly in Europe. The volume is comparative between nine EU member states and is trans-national comprising scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and consultants.