The Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, United Nations Office at Vienna, P.O. Box 500, Vienna International Centre, A-1400, Vienna, Austria, collects and provides information on crime and administration of criminal justice in Member States with a view to improving criminal justice policy planning and implementation.
The goal of the Letter is to periodically report on the United Nations effort to collect systematic information concerning the criminal justice and crime prevention activities of Member States. The Letter is published by the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch.
UNCJIN provides a variety of electronic information services to members worldwide, including electronic mail, on-line access to databases of United Nations surveys of crime trends and updates on research institutes around the world, and access to the World Criminal Justice Library.
The United Nations has collected criminal justice statistics every five years from Member States since 1970. A large body of data now exists containing information for the period from 1970 to 1985 on a wide range of criminal justice topics. The data are known also as the world crime surveys, of which there are currently three completed, with a fourth in progress. A validated set of data of the first (1970-1976) and second (1976-1980) surveys is available from the National Archives of Criminal Justice Data, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48106, United States. Data of the second (1976-1980) and third (1980-1986) surveys in SPSS PC+ or spreadsheet format (Lotus 1-2-3, v.2.1) are available from the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch. Data of the fourth survey (1986-1990) will be available in that format in 1994. The data sets are large and complex, and generally suitable only for experienced researchers. A detailed set of the survey data, including profiles of the criminal justice systems of a number of countries, will also be available electronically on the United Nations Dag Hammarskj”ld Library UNBIS system. The data are formatted for use by the general public. Portions of the data sets are also available on-line on UNCJIN.
Reports analysing various aspects of the data of the crime surveys for different geopolitical regions may be obtained from the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch (global reports) and the following interregional and affiliated institutes:
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United Nations Interregional
Crime and Justice Research Institute Via Giulia 52 00186, Rome ITALY |
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Helsinki Institute for Crime Prevention
and Control, affiliated with the United
Nations P.O. Box 34 SF-00931, Helsinki FINLAND |
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Asia and Far East Institute for the
Prevention of Crime and the Treatment
of Offenders 26-1, Harumi-cho, Fuchu Tokyo 183 JAPAN |
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Australian Institute of Criminology 2 Marcus Clarke St. Canberra, ACT 2601 AUASTRALIA |
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Latin American Institute for the Prevention
of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Apartado 10.071 San Jose COSTA RICA |