Distributed Information Processing Computer System of Courts and Justice Institutions in Russia (From Computerization in the Management of the Criminal Justice System: Proceedings of the Workshop and the Symposium on Computerization of Criminal Justice Information at the Ninth United Nations Congres

• NCJ Number: 167644
• Author(s): A V Morozov
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 7 pages
• Sale Source: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: Finland

Annotation

Computerization in the courts and other criminal justice institutions in the Russian Federation are discussed.

Abstract

The Board of the Ministry of Justice in 1994 specified the concepts involved in the use of computer technology in the document titled the Program of Informatization of the Courts and the Justice Institutions of the Russian Federation. The basic concept is distributed information processing. The Distributed Information Processing Computer System is a set of multifunctional workstations connected to an information center via a national network. The system has three levels. The first level consists of the central data systems. The second level consists of the supreme and regional courts and regional justice departments. The third level consists of the district courts and the criminal expertise research laboratories. The full program will require about 10,000 work stations at a cost of about $5,000 per work station. Financing will come from Federal financing, international assistance from the United Nations, and self-financing. The system will be created in several stages.