NCJ Number
145488
Date Published
1991
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This report was prepared in response to Resolution 1990/27, taken by the United Nations Economic and Social Council with regard to crime prevention and criminal justice, and reports on action taken by the UN General Assembly at its 45th session.
Abstract
The United Nations, and in particular, the Eighth UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, has paid special attention to the role of criminal law in the protection of nature and the environment, the prevention and control of organized crime, terrorist criminal activities, computerization of criminal justice, use of automated information exchange to combat crimes against movable cultural property, development of UN criminal justice statistical surveys, prevention of urban crime, domestic violence, use of children in criminal activities, and protection of human rights. The initial phase of UN program planning and implementation in these areas consists of adopting proposals for the biennium 1992-1993, preparing an intergovernmental working group and a ministerial meeting on the creation of an effective international crime and justice program, and following up other initiatives taken as a result of the Eighth Congress.