NCJ Number
199323
Journal
Corrections Compendium Volume: 28 Issue: 2 Dated: February 2003 Pages: 8-10
Date Published
February 2003
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This article briefly describes the agencies in the United Nations (U.N.) network that can help locate criminal justice information on a regional basis or can determine the accuracy of information provided by other sources.
Abstract
The U. N. Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program network comprises the U.N. Center for International Crime Prevention (CICP) and a number of interregional and regional institutes, as well as specialized centers around the world. The network was developed to help the international community strengthen cooperation in the areas of crime prevention and criminal justice. It provides information exchange, research, training, and public education. CICP focuses on combating transnational organized crime, corruption, illicit trafficking in human beings, and terrorism prevention. The U.N. Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) maintains the Internet-based U.N. Crime and Justice Information Network, a substantial database with links to other criminal justice-related sites. The U.N. Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) focuses on training and research to promote the sound development of criminal justice systems and mutual cooperation in Asia and the Pacific region. The U.N. Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders assists countries in the region, providing specialized services in response to their increasing needs. The other U.N. agencies profiled are the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI), the U.N. African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI), the Naif Arab Academy for Security Sciences (NAASS), the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), the International Center for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, the National Institute of Justice (United States), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the U.N. Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program, and the International Center for the Prevention of Crime. Contact information for 10 human rights non-governmental organizations is provided as well.