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Measuring drug policy evolution: a cross-country analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Gonçalves, Ricardo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lourenço. Ana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marreiros, Helia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-21T10:06:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-21T10:06:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Drug policies significantly impact public health and criminal justice outcomes, yet quantitative tools for systematically comparing approaches across jurisdictions remain limited. This paper uses a state-of-the-art comparative law method – leximetrics – to construct the Illicit Drugs Policy Indexes (IDPI), a valuable resource for assessing the evolution of drug policies over time within a specific country as well as across countries. The IDPI consists of a set of indexes corresponding to multiple dimensions of drug policy, including laws around consumption, possession and traffic. These indexes examine illicit drug laws and policies across seven countries: Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom, over a timeframe of twenty years from 1996 to 2016. Our results identify significant turning points in the evolution of laws regarding drugs, often indicating a shift towards less criminal-oriented approaches. Moreover, the paper identifies the countries which progressed more in that direction, over time. The underlying IDPI methodology provides policymakers and researchers with a standardized framework for evidence-based drug policy evaluation and reform, adaptable across jurisdictions. | por |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104750 | |
| dc.identifier.eid | 86000139975 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0955-3959 | |
| dc.identifier.pmid | 40056563 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/52794 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | 001442814600001 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Policy index | |
| dc.subject | Leximetrics | |
| dc.subject | Comparative law | |
| dc.subject | Drug policy | |
| dc.title | Measuring drug policy evolution: a cross-country analysis | por |
| dc.type | research article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.title | International Journal of Drug Policy | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 138 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 |