NCJ Number
147418
Journal
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Newsletter Issue: 22/23 Dated: special issue (July 1993) Pages: complete issue
Date Published
1993
Length
28 pages
Annotation
This double issue is devoted to the proceedings of the first and second sessions of the newly formed United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
Abstract
The Commission provides a means by which governments can exert their political will as part of a coordinated, multilateral UN program against international crime. At the first session, held in April 1992, the Commission defined itself and its methods. Basically, its goals were to establish appropriate channels of communication, foster information exchange, and promote expansion of the United Nations Criminal Justice Information Network. At the second session, held in April 1993, the Commission formulated specific objectives based on the themes that came out of the first session. Major topics of discussion were the impact of organized crime, control of the proceeds of crime, the role of criminal law in the protection of the environment, prevention of urban crime, violence against women in all of its forms, management of criminal justice information, technical cooperation, United standards and norms in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, strengthening the UN crime prevention and criminal justice program, preparations for Ninth UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, and cooperation among UN entities.