The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program : formulation of standards and efforts at their implementation
Examines the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. Describes the adoption of the various United Nations norms and standards that originated within the programme, provides a consideration of some of the major instruments adopted under the auspices of the programme, and examines efforts to progress from the promulgation of standards and norms to their monitoring and implementation
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia [Pa.], ©1994
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xiv, 331 pages ; 24 cm.
9780812232691, 0812232690
30700836
A brief history of the program
Recent reorganization of the program
The organs involved in the crime prevention and criminal justice process, their mandates and methods of operation
Standard-setting instruments; a chronological overview
The approval process and the juridical nature of the instruments
The standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners
The declaration of basic principles of justive for victims of crime and abuse of power
International cooperation in the criminal process
Efforts at implementation during the life of the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control
Implementation: what the future might hold
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