kossda-korea social science data archive

Principal Investigator(s)

Kang, Eun-Young / Korean Institute of Criminology

Producer(s)

Korean Institute of Criminology

Abstract

The narcotics control policy of Korea, due to its reliance on a criminal penalties approach, is resulting in costs for crime control as well as social costs in cases of increasing recidivism. Thus, in order for control policies to succeed it requires systematic preventive education measures and effective policy on controlling repeated offences and resocialization.
The「Survey on the Treatment of Drug Addicts and Measures for Social Rehabilitation」 was conducted to investigate the current state of measures for the prevention of drug abuse and social rehabilitation of drug addicts and to collect basic data for the establishment of legal reform measures for its revitalization. The survey was conducted among drug addicts. The questionnaire includes contents on the will to overcome addiction, possibility of overcoming addiction, necessary conditions for overcoming addiction and social rehabilitation, rehabilitation center for drug addicts, and support facilities.

Keywords

narcotic drugs drugs drug addiction rehabilitation (medical) rehabilitation job training vocational education social readjustment

Subjects

Crime/ Safety

Citation

Kang, Eun-Young. Survey on the Treatment of Drug Addicts and Measures for Social Rehabilitation, 2007 [Dataset]. Korean Institute of Criminology [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2008-09-30, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-2007-0016-V1.0.

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