NCJ Number
181341
Editor(s)
Jaana Ryan
Date Published
1999
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This July 1999 issue of the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI)newsletter summarizes the eighth session of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice; the 1999 meeting of HEUNI's Advisory Board; the fifth meeting of the World Criminal Justice Library Network (WCJLN); and preparations for the Tenth Congress Workshop on Women in the Criminal Justice System; as well as an update on work of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Abstract
The United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice focused on transnational organized crime and the proposed convention, corruption, effective crime prevention, mediation and restorative justice measures, penal reform, and the clearing house on international projects in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice. Among the activities of HEUNI's International Advisory Board (May 29, 1999) was consideration of the continued work of HEUNI on the United Nations and other surveys on crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems, and on the Tenth Congress Workshop on Women in the Criminal Justice System. The fifth meeting of the WCJLN (June 7-9, 1999), which addressed "Organized Crime in the Information Age," combined both practical library work and the topical organized crime issue. The workshop on "Women in the Criminal Justice System," to be organized at the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Vienna, April 10-17, 2000), will examine the issue from several perspectives, including female criminality, the treatment of female offenders, and women as practitioners in criminal justice systems. In addition to an update on the work on the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, this newsletter presents HEUNI staff news, a list of new publications, a listing of unprinted source material that is generally inaccessible through normal bibliographical searches ("grey literature"), a listing of upcoming meetings, and a scholarship announcement.