Title: United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network

Source/Sponsoring Agency: United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention

URL: http://www.uncjin.org/

Date Checked:       Status: Active

Date Annotated: 11/16/00

Topics: Comparative Law; Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Foreign Law; International Law

Other keywords: Court decisions; Statistics; United Nations

Contents: The United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN) is hosted and supported by the Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Vienna. UNCJIN provides hyperlinks to websites containing relevant laws, United States cases, treaties, and constitutions. This site also offers full-text access to documents of the Commissions on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Congresses on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, and Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. United Nations rules and standards are available in both text and PDF format. Various United Nations statistical surveys are available concerning crime and justice issues. Direct links are also available to Institutes of the U.N. Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network as well as to U.N. and other international organizations. UNCJIN offers users extensive information concerning The Centre for International Crime Prevention. In addition, a search engine and site map promote convenient access to the entire UNCJIN website.

Author of Annotation: E. Cooper