Topics covered by the ancillary meetings

The topics discussed at the ancillary meetings reflect the commitment and contributions of non-governmental organization to crime prevention and criminal justice. Topics covered issues related to prisons, offenders and victims, and restorative justice, as well as new forms of crime, such as the fight against transnational organized crime, trafficking in human beings, corruption, and terrorism.

Prison:

• Tackling Prison Overcrowding: Solutions That Work
• International Coordination Among Correctional Professionals
• Prison Conditions - Getting It Right
• Making Standards Work: Monitoring and Action
• A New Agenda for Penal Reform

Offenders and Victims:

• Medical/Mental Health Treatment of Offenders
• The Impact of the Victims' Declaration on National and International Law and Standard Setting
• Terrorist Victimization: Prevention, Control and Recovery
• Juvenile Offenders as Citizens
• The Criminalization of Women and Girls
• Promoting a Dialogue: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Capital Punishment: New Frontiers in Abolition
• Preventing Human Rights Violations: Training and Accountability
• Citizen and Governmental Participation in Developing Alternatives to Retributive Justice

Restorative Justice:

• Overview of Restorative Justice
• Restorative Principles in Response to State-Sanctioned crime: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
• Restorative Justice: Measuring Success - Research and Examples
• Actual Experiences in the Field of Mediation and Restorative Justice: Difficulties Encountered, Implementation, Prospects
• Restorative Justice - The Need for Standards
• Restorative Justice for Police
• Restorative Processes: Mediation, Conferencing and Circles
• Restorative Outcomes: Community Service and Restitution
• The Criminalization of Mental Illness

International Law:

• Promoting the Rule of Law and Strengthening the Criminal Justice System through Ratification and Implementation of the Rome Statute for an International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Court: Hopes and Realities
• The Status of Participants in Domestic conflicts: Freedom Fighters, Terrorists, Lawful Belligerents, or War Criminals
• Genocide: The Lessons of the 20th Century - A Failed Convention
• Seminars of Antigua on Extradition and International Cooperation in Criminal Law

Transnational Crime:

• Transnational Organized Crime Against Women: Trafficking in Women
• Promoting the Role of the Prosecutor in the Fight Against Transnational Organized crime
• Cross-Sectoral Panel on Corruption, Financial Crimes and Drug Trafficking. A Challenge for Convergence in the 21st Century
• Global Organized Crime - new issues

Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice:

• Cultural/Educational Crime Prevention Initiative: Review of Draft Global Plan of Action
• Current Australian Research in Crime Prevention
• Enforcement of Law and Criminal Justice in Arab Countries