The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

The Commission, which arose from a ministerial meeting held in Versailles in 1991, is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council. It was preceded by a more technically focussed Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, formed in 1971 to replace an earlier expert advisory committee and tackle a broadened scope of UN interest in criminal justice policy. The Economic and Social Council, on the recommendation of the General Assembly, established the Commission by its resolution 1992/1, entitled "Establishment of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice," and provided for the Commission's mandates and priorities in its resolution 1992/22, entitled "Implementation of General Assembly resolution 46/152 concerning operational activities and coordination in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice." Its mandated priority areas are:

• international action to combat national and transnational crime, including organized crime, economic crime and money laundering;
• promoting the role of criminal law in protecting the environment;
• crime prevention in urban areas, including juvenile crime and violence; and
• improving the efficiency and fairness of criminal justice administration systems.

Aspects of these principal themes are selected for discussion at each annual session of the Vienna-based Commission.

The Commission develops, monitors and reviews the implementation of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice programme and facilitates the coordination of its activities. The Commission provides substantive and organizational direction for the quinquennial United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network supports the implementation of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice programme and contributes to the work of the Commission. The Commission acts as the governing body of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Fund, the United Nations fund that provides resources for promoting technical assistance in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice carried out by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

• Membership
• Reports of the annual sessions of the CCPCJ
• Documents from the annual sessions of the CCPCJ

Meetings in 2010:

• Nineteenth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna, 17-21 May 2010
  

Meetings in 2009:

• Eighteenth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna, 16-24 April 2009
• Reconvened eighteenth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna, 3-4 December 2009
• Standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (CND resolution 52/13 and CCPCJ resolution 18/3)
  

Meetings in 2008:

• Seventeenth session, Vienna, 14 to 18 April 2008
• Open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime