NCJ Number
211593
Date Published
April 2005
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This report outlines measures adopted by member states of the United Nations as well as measures adopted by intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations in addressing various crimes and criminal justice issues that involve implementing the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century (General Assembly resolution 56/261, annex).
Abstract
Measures adopted by states pertain to action against the following crime types: transnational organized crime; corruption; trafficking in persons; the smuggling of migrants; trafficking in persons; the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts, components, and ammunition; money laundering; and terrorism. Action on various criminal justice issues pertain to crime prevention, witnesses and crime victims, prison overcrowding and alternatives to incarceration, high-technology and computer-related crime, juvenile justice, special needs of women in the criminal justice system, standards and norms, and restorative justice. The following countries reported on these issues: Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine. Contributions were also received from the following intergovernmental organizations: the Asian Development Bank, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the Economic Cooperation Organization, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Customs Cooperation Council. Nongovernmental organizations that provided input were the African Unification Front, the American Bar Association, and Pax Romana.