NCJ Number
155269
Date Published
1994
Length
160 pages
Annotation
At its third session in 1994, the United Nations (UN) Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice recommended to the Economic and Social Council the adoption of 12 draft resolutions and actually five resolutions.
Abstract
The draft resolutions focused on organized transnational crime, control of crime proceeds, organized smuggling of illegal migrants across national boundaries, the role of criminal in protecting the environment, measures to strengthen the UN's crime prevention and criminal justice programs, the development of minimum rules for criminal justice administration, the use and application of UN crime prevention and criminal justice standards, and urban crime. Other draft resolutions were administrative or technical in nature. The five resolutions that were adopted covered violence against women and children, international trafficking in minors, information management functions of the UN's crime prevention and criminal justice programs, treaties to combat crime, and coordination and cooperation in drug control. The organization of the third UN session is described, and report annexes provide additional information on the session agenda.