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Auteur T. DECORTE |
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L. PAOLI ; T. DECORTE ; L. KERSTEN |Background: Since the 1990s, a shift from the importation of foreign cannabis to domestic cultivation has taken place in Belgium, as it has in many other countries. This shift has prompted Belgian policy-making bodies to prioritize the repressio[...]Chapitre
T. DECORTE | 2011Within the study of drug use and addiction, specific scientific paradigms, methods and tools have dominated - epidemiology, psychiatry, neurobiology - while other approaches have remained more marginal (including anthropology, history, sociology[...]Article : Périodique
Research on cannabis cultivation has identified several factors associated with a grower's likelihood of detection by law enforcement. However, these studies are difficult to compare, as they drew from different data sources and methods, and hav[...]Rapport
T. BLICKMAN ; K. SANDWELL ; A. D. PUTRI ; X. ARANA ; T. DECORTE ; V. A. FRANK ; D. J. KORF ; I. I. MICHELS ; M. NYGAARD-CHRISTENSEN ; T. PFEIFFER-GERSCHEL ; H. STÖVER ; B. WERSE ; F. ZOBEL | Amsterdam : Transnational Institute (TNI) | 2019This paper examines six European countries - Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland - in order to better understand the tools being used - and the challenges faced - by municipal and regional governments calling for di[...]Article : Périodique
T. DECORTE, Personne interviewée ; N. CASTETZ, Intervieweur |Modèles de régulation de la production et de la consommation, les cannabis social clubs se développent de plus en plus en Europe. Exemple en Belgique, présenté par Tom Decorte, professeur de criminologie à l'Université de Gand (Belgique) et dire[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs) are private organizations or clubs of users that produce cannabis for non-profit distribution to adult members to meet their personal needs without having to turn to the black market. CSCs can be found in[...]Article : Périodique
Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs) constitute a noncommercial model for the supply of cannabis among registered, adults users, which is present in several countriesincluding in Belgium. This analysis provides a first descriptive examination of a sampl[...]Bulletin : Périodique
International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol.26, n°3 - March 2015 - Domestic cannabis cultivation
G. R. POTTER, Éditeur scientifique ; T. DECORTE, Éditeur scientifique | 2015Rapport
T. DECORTE ; D. MORTELMANS ; J. TIEBERGHIEN ; S. DE MOOR | Lisbon : OEDT / EMCDDA | Thematic Papers, ISSN 1725-5767 | 2009ENGLISH : In many European countries, one or more general population surveys have been carried out to get an impression of the characteristics of illicit drug use at national level. Despite valuable efforts to standardise national drug surveys[...]Article : Périodique
Les interventions d'ordre politique et juridique entourant la consommation de drogues découlent principalement de la croyance répandue voulant que les drogues illicites génèrent une dépendance qui, elle, engendre le chaos. Cela étant dit, nos co[...]Congrès
T. DECORTE ; D. KORF ; ESSD, Organisateur de réunion | Bruxelles : VUB Press | Criminologische Studies | 2004Research on drug issues in most European countries has long been dominated by the medical and therapeutic professions. In 1990 the European Society of Social Drug Research (ESSD) was founded to promote the exchange of research findings among soc[...]Article : Périodique
P. HAKKARAINEN ; T. DECORTE ; S. SZNITMAN ; K. KARJALAINEN ; M. J. BARRATT ; V. A. FRANK ; S. LENTON ; G. POTTER ; B. WERSE ; C. WILKINS |Aim: To compare characteristics of recreational vs. medical growers in a sample of small-scale cannabis cultivators from 12 countries. Methods: Six thousand eight hundred ninety six respondents who took part in an online survey were divided int[...]Article : Périodique
G. R. POTTER ; M. J. BARRATT ; A. MALM ; M. BOUCHARD ; T. BLOK ; A. S. CHRISTENSEN ; T. DECORTE ; V. A. FRANK ; P. HAKKARAINEN ; A. KLEIN ; S. LENTON ; J. PERALA ; B. WERSE ; M. WOUTERS |Background: This article aims to provide an overview of: demographic characteristics; experiences with growing cannabis; methods and scale of growing operations; reasons for growing; personal use of cannabis and other drugs; participation in can[...]Article : Périodique
P. HAKKARAINEN ; V. A. FRANK ; M. J. BARRATT ; H. V. DAHL ; T. DECORTE ; K. KARJALAINEN ; S. LENTON ; G. POTTER ; B. WERSE |Background: The production and consumption of cannabis for the treatment of medical conditions is of increasing importance internationally; however, research on different aspects of the phenomenon is still scarce. In this article, we report find[...]Article : Périodique
C. DE KOCK ; J. SCHAMP ; W. VANDERPLASSCHEN ; T. DECORTE ; I. DERLUYN ; B. HAUSPIE ; D. JACOBS ; M. SACCO |Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an effective strategy to promote action research regarding health and substance use issues. The London-based Centre for Ethnicity and Health?s CBPR model was replicated in Belgium to study substan[...]Livre
T. DECORTE, Éditeur scientifique ; S. LENTON, Éditeur scientifique ; C. WILKINS, Éditeur scientifique | London : Routledge | Studies in Crime and Society | 2020Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the world. Over the past couple of decades, several Western jurisdictions have seen reforms in, or changes to, the way cannabis use is being controlled, departing from traditional approaches of c[...]Article : Périodique
M. J. BARRATT ; G. R. POTTER ; M. WOUTERS ; C. WILKINS ; B. WERSE ; J. PERALA ; M. MULBJERG PEDERSEN ; H. NGUYEN ; A. MALM ; S. LENTON ; D. KORF ; A. KLEIN ; J. HEYDE ; P. HAKKARAINEN ; V. A. FRANK ; T. DECORTE ; M. BOUCHARD ; T. BLOK |Background: Internet-mediated research methods are increasingly used to access hidden populations. The International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire (ICCQ) is an online survey designed to facilitate international comparisons into the relative[...]Article : Périodique
M. PARDAL ; T. DECORTE ; M. BONE ; O. PARES ; J. JOHANSSON |Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs) are typically non-profit associations of adult cannabis users who collectively produce and distribute cannabis among themselves. Since the emergence of the model in Spain during the 1990s, other countries may have se[...]Rapport
This paper presents some of the key findings of an innovative online survey of cannabis growers in Europe, Australia and North America. The International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire (ICCQ) presents generated important findings about canna[...]Livre
To better understand the frequent failures to achieve the drug policy goals of supply and demand reduction, we need more clarity about the motives and mechanisms of drug use and drug dealing. Much of the emphasis in social and political discours[...]Chapitre
T. DECORTE | 2000FRANÇAIS : L'auteur expose une série de questions éthiques apparues lors d'une recherche qualitative : prendre contact sans s'immiscer dans la vie de la personne ni la "trahir", éviter les situations à risque tout en côtoyant des personnes pot[...]Article : Périodique
The use of any drug involves both values and rules of conduct (social sanctions) and patterns of behavior (social rituals). Based on an ethnographic study (1996-1999) among 111 cocaine users from the metropolitan area of Antwerp (Belgium), the s[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs) are a model of non-profit production and distribution of cannabis among a closed circuit of adult cannabis users. CSCs are now operating in several countries around the world, albeit under very different [...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
The shift to (inter)regional production, trade, and domestic cultivation has become an irreversible international trend. Until now, the focus of most empirical work has been on large-scale, commercially-oriented and professionally-organized segm[...]Article : Périodique
R. COOMBER ; L. MOYLE ; V. BELACKOVA ; T. DECORTE ; P. HAKKARAINEN ; A. HATHAWAY ; K. J. LAIDLER ; S. LENTON ; S. MURPHY ; J. SCOTT ; M. STEFUNKOVA ; K. VAN DE VEN ; M. VLAEMYNCK ; B. WERSE |Background: It is now commonly accepted that there exists a form of drug supply, that involves the non-commercial supply of drugs to friends and acquaintances for little or no profit, which is qualitatively different from profit motivated 'drug [...]Article : Périodique
The shift to (inter)regional production, trade and domestic cultivation has become an irreversible international trend. Until now, the focus of most empirical work has been on large-scale, commercially oriented and professionally organized segme[...]Article : Périodique
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This book is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Antwerp club scene and repeated in-depth interviews with cocaine users. The overall theme of the book is the genesis and the development of informal control mechanisms (social sanc[...]Article : Périodique
M. J. BARRATT ; M. BOUCHARD ; T. DECORTE ; V. A. FRANK ; P. HAKKARAINEN ; S. LENTON ; A. MALM ; H. NGUYEN ; G. R. POTTER |Purpose - Unlike other plant-based drugs, cannabis is increasingly grown within the country of consumption, requires minimal processing before consumption, and can be easily grown almost anywhere using indoor or outdoor cultivation techniques. D[...]