Alcohol offenders under treatment pressure. Discourses on measures for addicted lawbreakers

This book shows the relation between care-dependent and caregiver(s), the impacts on the family and the larger social context, as well as socio-cultural and political aspects underlying the growing need for and the practice of formal and informal care.

In this policy brief we investigate the (hypothetical) implementation of the Hartz IV reform in Austria. We present two scenarios and their impact on expenditure and poverty.

This report is a situation analysis of the decentralization of social services in Kosovo, which started in 2009 with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between ministries and the individual municipalities.

Decentralization of social services in Kosovo: challenges and recommendations