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Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
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The United Nations works to build strategies for crime prevention and criminal justice systems and to support international cooperation to combat crime. Some of the most pressing issues of concern to the United Nations are transnational organized crime, the rights of offenders and their victims, trafficking in women and children and crime prevention.
The growing transnational dimension of crime and the need to strengthen and improve cooperation against it are priority issues for the quinquennial international congresses convened by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The Commission formulates draft resolutions for action by the Economic and Social Council and it serves as an advisory body within the UN system.
Documentation
The individual documents from the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/CN.15 Commission number 15 = Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice |
-/year |
-/sequential number |
Ex. E/CN.15/1996/19 Economic and Social Council, Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, year 1996, document 19 |
Information about the structure and work of the Commission and full text documents and reports can be accessed from the official web page of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
Documents in print for the period 1946-1992 are included in the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
From 1993 onwards they can be accessed electronically through the United Nations Official Document System - ODS.
The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice submits an annual report to the ECOSOC in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. A complete collection of these supplements in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala. and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Recent supplements are posted as Reports at the ECOSOC official Web page.
Databases and Indexes
Documents are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
References to documents with links to full texts for recent years can be retrieved through the UNBISnet - the online catalogue of the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.
Printed Indexes