Research project Court-imposed care orders in a non-treatment paradigm
The project addresses court-imposed care empirically.
Court-imposed care orders in a non-treatment paradigm: trends, demographics and outcomes in Sweden, 1994-2020.
The project addresses court-imposed care empirically. The project will utilize Swedish longitudinal full-population micro data from a large number of national administrative registers and aims to study changes in the socio-demographics of the client-group over a 26-year period as well as its links to post-sanction outcomes of labour market establishment, recidivism in crime and health. In the Nordic countries, the political debate is currently imbued with both crime policy issues and the drug issue.
Considering the contextual similarities between the Nordic countries, results of analyses from Sweden can be applied also in the other countries and be of importance in ongoing discussions of future approaches to drug policies and the punishment-treatment controversy.
Project description
The project will use data for the entire population and study sentences to contract care during the period 1994–2020. By linking data on prosecutions with a number of other registers it will be possible to study which demographic and social factors have been important for whether one has been sentenced to the penalty, relative to other alternative penalties, as well as study how the individuals who have undergone the penalty are faring over time.
Project members
Project managers
Anna Kahlmeter
Researcher
