Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and North America
This report is based on an analysis of national responses to the Fifth United Nations Survey. The report covers the years 1990 through 1994. The fifth United Nations Survey data have been supplemented by other information, including in particular the results of the International Crime (Victim) Survey. The report differs considerably from its predecessors. The data has been subjected to quantitative analysis in order to test whether a set of indicators can be developed that may help us to better understand differences between countries in the level and structure of crime, and in the operation of the criminal justice system.
Crime and Society: A Comparative Criminology Tour of the World
www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/
This website presents basic criminal justice-related information about each country of the world.
International
Center
for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy
www.icclr.law.ubc.ca
Independent, non-profit
institute,
officially affiliated with the United Nations, dedicated to
making a substantial contribution to national and international
efforts to reduce crime and improve justice.
Open
Society
Justice Initiative
www.justiceinitiative.org/
The Open Society Justice Initiative is an operational program of the Open Society Institute. This website gives details of work the Justice Initiative is engaged in including national criminal justice reform, international justice, freedom of information and expression, equality and citizenship, anti-corruption and legal capacity development. Work is also detailed by region and country and publications produced by the Justice Initiative can be downloaded in full.
Profiles of Criminal Justice Systems in Europe and North America, 1990-1994
www.heuni.fi/uploads/bz2x8.pdf
The
World
Fact book of
Criminal Justice Systems
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wfcj.htm
This fact book provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries around the world.
Includes a selection of the national background papers prepared for the Conference as well as regional correctional statistics.
Confèrence
Permanente Europèenne de la Probation
www.cep-probation.org
The Conférence Permanente Européenne de la Probation works to promote the social inclusion of offenders through community sanctions and measures such as probation, community service, mediation and conciliation.
Global Detention Project
www.globaldetentionproject.org/
To assess the growth and evolution of detention institutions, project researchers at the Global Detention Project are creating a comprehensive database of detention sites that categorizes detention facilities along several dimensions, including security level, bureaucratic chain of command, facility type (is a given site an exposed camp, a dedicated migrant detention facility, or a common prison), spatial segregation (are there separate cells for criminals and administrative detainees, for women and men), and size.
Health
in Prisons
Project
www.euro.who.int/prisons
This project, initiated by the United Nations World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe, provides information on the health conditions of prisons and correctional facilities in Europe.
International
Centre for Prison Studies
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/law/research/icps
The International Centre for Prison Studies seeks to assist governments and other relevant agencies to develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment. It carries out its work on a project or consultancy basis for international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations.
International
Community Corrections Association
www.iccaweb.org/
ICCA provides information, training, and other services to enhance the quality of services and supervision for offenders and to promote effective management practices.
International
Corrections and Prisons Association
www.icpa.ca
International Corrections and Prisons Association provides a forum for criminal justice professionals to join in a dialogue and to share ideas and practices aimed at advancing professional corrections.
Penal
Reform
International
www.penalreform.org/
Penal Reform International (PRI) has four principal objectives: to promote humane treatment of offenders according to the international instruments; to eliminate racial, class and ethnic discrimination in penal measures; to reduce the use of prison throughout the world and to replace prison whenever possible by constructive alternatives that are meaningful to victims and; to abolish the death penalty.
PrisonReform.org
www.prisonreform.org
PrisonReform.org lists government sites and other organizations related to prisons and prison reform, chiefly within the United Kingdom. The homepage includes an alphabetical navigation toolbar, allowing rapid access to a large variety of sites.
The Anti-Corruption Network for
Transition Economies provides a forum for the exchange of concrete,
action-oriented information between anti-corruption practitioners and
analysts in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union.
Anti-Money Laudering and Combating the Financing of
Terrorism
www1.worldbank.org/finance/html/amlcft/index.htm
The website includes publications regard anti-money laundering system
and other measures which the World Bank has carried out.
Business Anti-Corruption Portal
www.business-anti-corruption.com/?L=0
The purpose of this portal is to support small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in avoiding and fighting corruption and creating a better business environment. Working actively against corruption will furthermore enable companies to adhere to the UN Global Compact Principle 10 on corruption. As small and medium sized companies typically possess fewer resources than larger companies, these tools have been developed to support them in fighting corruption.
Computer
related
crime: EU Cybercrime website
ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/crime/cybercrime/fsj_crime_cybercrime_en.htm
This website provides information of EU's initiative on cybercrime.
Corruption Prevention Network
www.corruptionprevention.net/
Oringally part of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the CPN developed as an entity with the aim of sharing information and cooperating with members to prevent corruption. With an excellent e-Resources page featuring forum papers, hot topic papers, links and an e-Library including policy papers, strategy, presentations and cartoons.
Cybercrime:
Center for Democracy & Technology
www.cdt.org/international/cybercrime/
"Several international
initiatives on
cyber-crime raise concerns for
Internet freedom and threaten to result
in government mandates on industry. One effort is being undertaken by
the Council of Europe (COE), which is drafting a treaty on computer
crime. The Group of Eight (G-8 - the seven major industrial
nations
plus Russia) have been discussing cyber-crime at the ministerial level.
CDT here collects various materials on these initiatives, focusing on
the COE proposal."
Cybercrime
Law
www.cybercrimelaw.net/
Cybercrimelaw.net is
a global information clearinghouse on cybercrime law.
Financial
Action Task Force on Money Laundering
www.fatf-gafi.org/pages/0,2987,en_32250379_32235720_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
The FATF is an inter-governmental
body whose purpose is the development and promotion of national and
international policies to combat money laundering and terrorist
financing.
Global Integrity
www.globalintegrity.org/
Global Integrity generates, synthesizes, and disseminates credible, comprehensive and timely information on governance and corruption trends around the world. As an independent information provider employing on-the-ground expertise, we produce original reporting and quantitative analysis in the global public interest regarding accountable and democratic governance.
Group
of the
States
Against Corruption (GRECO)
www.coe.int/t/dg1/greco/default_en.asp
GRECO evaluates, through a dynamic process of peer pressure, the compliance with undertakings contained in the legal instruments of the Council of Europe in fighting against corruption.
International
Center for Corruption Research
www.gwdg.de/~uwvw/icr.htm
This site was designed as an outlet for academic research in the field of corruption to the media and as a discussion forum for academic research on corruption.
International
Compliance Association
www.int-comp.org
The International Compliance
Association supports
and educates compliance professionals in the fight against terrorist
financing,
corruption, money laundering, and financial crime through the provision
of
internationally recognized qualifications, member information exchange,
and
training.
Transparency
International
www.transparency.org/
Transparency International is a
civil
society organization dedicated to curbing both international and
national corruption. Reports provide an overview on the state of
corruption worldwide. Reports may also be ordered from
Transparency International in book format.
Transparency
International (TI) en Latinoamérica y el Caribe
www.transparency.org/tilac/
This is the official web site of
the
regional branch of Transparency International which seeks to promote
political accountability and ethics in Latin America, South America,
and the Caribbean. The site provides details of the aims of
the organization and its current projects. Both in Enlgish and
Portuguese
U.S.
Agency for
International Development
www.usaid.gov/our_work/democracy_and_governance/technical_areas/anti-corruption/
Center for Democracy and
Government’s
Handbook on Fighting Corruption.
Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Center
www.u4.no
The U4 Resource Centre is operated by the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway - a private social science research foundation working on issues of development and human rights. Through this extensive online resource centre, we guide users to relevant anti-corruption resources, including our own applied research (Themes), and we communicate the work of the U4 partner agencies through a searchable database of projects and initiatives. We also offer a Help Desk service and provide online as well as in-country training on anti-corruption measures and strategies for partner agencies and their counterparts.
World
Bank
Institute – Governance and Anti-Corruption Resource Center
www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/about.html
The Governance group of the
World Bank
Institute (WBI) facilitates action-oriented and participatory programs
to promote good governance and to curb corruption in its client
countries.
The Campbell Collaboration (C2) is
an international group of researchers that prepare, update, and
disseminate reviews of research conducted worldwide on effective
methods of reducing crime and improving justice.
Crime
Stoppers
International
www.c-s-i.org/
The role of Crime Stoppers International is to establish support through a worldwide network of Crime Stoppers programs, provide the forum for leadership and training, and to foster cooperation and encourage information exchange between local Crime Stopper programs world wide.
International
Centre for the Prevention of Crime
www.crime-prevention-intl.org/
The ICPC was created for the
purpose of
assisting cities and countries to reduce delinquency, violence and
insecurity in order to contribute to the resolution of local crime and
insecurity problems.
International
CPTED Association
www.cpted.net
Founded in 1996, the aim of this organization is "to create safer environments and improve the quality of life through the use of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles and strategies." Although many of the features of the website are for members only, back issues of the newsletter of the organization are available and one can search the library database.
Latin
American
Institute for the Prevention of Crime
and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD)
www.ilanud.or.cr
The ILANUD website outlines the form and function of the Institute and provides links to various publications and links to Latin American instutions of note. In Spanish.
Organization
for
Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)
www.osce.org/
OSCE is a large regional security organization with 55 participating states from Europe, Central Asia and North America. The organization's activities include: anti-trafficking, arms control, combating terrorism, human rights, policing, and more. The site contains a documents library with access to OSCE publications and also contains a searchable database of related links.
UN
Asia and Far
East Institute for the Prevention of
Crime
and Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI)
www.unafei.or.jp/english/index.htm
The United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders is a United Nations regional institute, aiming at promoting development of criminal justice systems and mutual cooperation in Asia and Pacific Region.
UN
Centre for
International Crime Prevention
www.uncjin.org/CICP/cicp.html
The Center for International Crime Prevention is the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention, criminal justice and criminal law reform. It pays special attention to combating transnational organized crime, corruption and illicit trafficking in human beings.
UN
Congresses on
the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
www.asc41.com/undocs.htm
The United Nations convenes a
crime
congress every five years and the proceedings of those meetings are now
available through the American Society of Criminology on the webpage of
the Division of International Criminology. Many subjects have been
addressed at the meetings, including: community policing, crime
prevention, drugs and crime, human trafficking, juvenile justice,
organized crime, terrorism, treatment of prisoners, victimology, and
more. Proceedings from the First through the Tenth Congress are now
available in PDF format.
UN
Guidelines for
the Prevention of Crime - 2002
www.bprd.gov.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Crime%20Prevention3518667259.doc
The
Beckley Foundation: Drug Policy Programme
www.internationaldrugpolicy.net/
The Beckley Foundation Drug
Policy Programme (BFDPP) aims to promote objective debate on the
effectiveness, direction and content of drug policies at national and
international level. This web site provides access to reports and
briefing papers prepared by the BFDPP, as well as information on
relevant events and seminars. It also provides links to other relevant
websites, and to related drug policy initiatives, such as the
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), and the International
Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP).
Eurasian Harm Reduction Network - EHRN
www.harm-reduction.org/
"The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) is a regional network with a mission to support, develop, and advocate for harm reduction approaches in the field of drugs, HIV/AIDS, public health, and social exclusion by following the principles of humanism, tolerance, partnership, and respect for human rights and freedoms." The EHRN's geographical focus includes Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (CEECA), which consists of 6 sub-regions: Balkans, the Baltics, Central Europe, European Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Caucasus and Central Asia. PDF versions (English and Russian) of major publications are available to download.
European
Monitoring Centre for
Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
www.emcdda.europa.eu/
"The European Monitoring
Centre
for Drugs and Drug Addiction was set up to provide the Community and
its Member States with 'objective, reliable and comparable information
at European level concerning drugs and drug addiction and their
consequences".
The Institute is a subsidiary of The Drug Free America Foundation and consists of internationally recognized physicians, attorneys, drug prevention and drug policy experts. Their goal is to provide accurate information on drug related issues as well as to promote drug policies which reduce drug use or will result in reductions in future drug use.
International
Center for Alcohol Policies
www.icap.org
International
Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA)
www.icaa.de/
The International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA) works to reduce and prevent the harmful effects of the use of alcohol and other drugs.
International
Drug Policy Consortium
www.idpc.info/
The International Drug Policy
Consortium (IDPC) is a global network of 24 national and international
NGOs that specialise in issues related to illegal drug use. The
Consortium aims to promote objective and open debate on the
effectiveness, direction and content of drug policies at national and
international level, and supports evidence-based policies that are
effective in reducing drug-related harm. It disseminates the reports of
its member organisations about particular drug-related matters as well
as offers expert consultancy services to policymakers and officials
around the world.
International Harm Reduction Association
www.ihra.net/
The IHRA is a leading organization in promoting evidence based harm reduction policies and practices on a global basis for all psychoactive substances (including illicit drugs, tobacco and alcohol). Users may download key publications, including fact sheets and briefings, and the 50 Best Collections Overviews.
International
Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
www.incb.org/incb/index.html
INCB is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ for the implementation of the United Nations drug conventions. It was established in 1968 by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961. This home site provides access to a host of technical reports produced by the INCB.
The
International
Society for the Study of Drug Policy - ISSDP
www.issdp.org/
Mission
Interministerielle de Lutte Contre la Drogue et la
Toxicomanie
www.drogues.gouv.fr/fr/index.html
In French
Organization
of
American States
www.oas.org/
The Organization of American
States
works to promote good governance, strengthen human rights, foster peace
and security, and address the complex problems caused by poverty,
drugs, and corruption.
The
Pompidou Group
www.coe.int/T/DG3/pompidou/Default_en.asp
In responding to the changing drug scene in Europe, Pompidou Group has assumed key roles: to promote innovative approaches, to act as a catalyst and to co-ordinate the exchange of knowledge and experience between policy-makers, professional groups and researchers on drug-related issues, policies and programmes.
Transnational Institute Drugs and Democracy Project
www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?=&text10=news_drugs-news&menu=11d
An independent Dutch based organization that has produced a thorough analysis of international drug policy issues currently available. The website has a specific emphasis on the workings of the UN drug agencies and have a wide range of downloadable detailed policy analyses.
UN
Office of
Drugs and
Crime (UNODC)
www.unodc.org/unodc/index.html
UNODC is cooperating with the
private
sector, governments & countries, as well as business communities in
order to put into effect to the United Nations drug control conventions.
Senlis
Council
www.senliscouncil.net/
The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank with offices in Kabul, London, Paris, Brussels and Ottawa. The Council’s work encompasses foreign policy, security, development and counter-narcotics policies and aims to provide innovative analysis and proposals within these areas. The website includes access to full text research reports and papers.
Web of
Addictions
www.well.com/user/woa
Site dedicated to providing information about alcohol and drug addictions.
World
Health
Organisation – Substance Abuse Department
www.who.int/substance_abuse/
"This website contains information pertaining to psychoactive substance use and abuse, and also information about the World Health Organization's projects and activities in the areas of substance use and substance dependence. "
Center
for the Study
of Hate and Extremism
California
State
University, San Bernardino
hatemonitor.csusb.edu/index_old.html
This site includes a section on the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It provides headline news, links, and photos.
This site includes a section on the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It provides headline news, links, and photos.
Amnesty International works to
promote
the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty
International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure
fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death
penalty, torture
and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and
"disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
Coalition "All For Fair Trials"
www.all4fairtrials.org.mk/en/1Misija.htm
Coalition "All For Fair Trials" represents a network of 22 independent NGOs. The coalition works towards increasing respect for human rights especially for the international standards for fair trial via various forms of acting and the intent to increase the level of their implementation, to initiate institutional and legal reforms as well as recover citizens' trust in the judiciary and other institutions of the system.
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
www.humanrightsinitiative.org/default.htm
The Initiative is an international NGO maintaining a website with numerous publications available to download on topics such as police reform, prison reform, right to information and human rights advocacy.
Country
Reports
on Human
Rights Practices, US State Department
www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/
This is a State Department site with reports on the human rights practices of nearly 200 countries. Many aspects of human rights policy are discussed, including democratization, political rights, press rights, religious freedom, and corporate social responsibility.
DIANA:
An
International Human Rights Database
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/index.html
This website is part of The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. A vast array of documents relating to human rights, including United Nation documents, and the laws of war are available.
Helsinki
Foundation for Human Rights
www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/en/index.html
Established in Poland in 1989 as
a
successor to the underground Helsinki Commission, the Helsinki
Foundation works to educate and promote public interest activities. The
site includes documentation on civil rights law and Foundation
projects, as well
as offering access to a large assortment of relevant international
documents.
Human
Rights
Around the World
www.derechos.org/human-rights/world.html
This website is maintained by Derechos Human Rights, working for the respect and promotion of human rights throughout the world. It facilitates the finding of human rights information on speicific regions or countries of the world.
Human
Rights
Internet
www.hri.ca/
A key objective of the organization is to support the work of the global non-governmental community in its struggle to obtain human rights for all. To this end, HRI promotes human rights education, stimulates research, encourages the sharing of information, and builds international solidarity among those committed to the principles enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights.
Human
Rights Research and Education Centre
www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/eng/index.php
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre is an independent centre within the University of Ottawa. Users may access information on annual reports, publications, documentation centre, projects and research.
Human
Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/
Human Rights Watch is dedicated
to
protecting the human rights of people around the world, preventing
discrimination, upholding political freedom, protecting people from
inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bringing offenders to justice.
International
Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
www.fidh.org/
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is an international non-governmental organization for the defense of human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Created in 1922, FIDH brings together 141 human righrs organisations from 100 countries. The site includes press releases and reports, and users can subscribe to the newsletter of the organization. Avaliable in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
www.ihf-hr.org/welcome.php
This website offers reports on human rights issues around the globe, including member committees, links, projects, and contacts.
Moratorium
2000
www.santegidio.org/en/pdm/pdm_eng.htm
The website of a global petition drive calling for a moratorium on the death penalty worldwide.
Police
&
Human Rights
Programme, Council of Europe
www.coe.int/T/E/Human_Rights/Police
Includes video clips and
publications,
and information about policing and human rights in Europe.
Raoul
Wallenberg
Institute
www.rwi.lu.se/index.shtml
The purpose of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is to promote research, training and academic education in the fields of human rights and humanitarian law.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx
The website of the High Commissioner contains numerous publications including human rights basics, fact sheets, special issues, reference and training and education. The site also lists numerous links to other human rights organizations.
World
Organisation Against
Torture (OMCT)
www.omct.org/index.php?&lang=eng
OMCT is the largest
international
coalition of NGOs fighting against torture, summary executions, forced
disappearances and other form of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Anti-Trafficking
in Persons Section
www.oas.org/atip/atip_reports.asp
The mission of the Section is to
facilitate the exchange of information, provide training, and promote
anti-trafficking policies in a way that assists the efforts of member
states to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, especially women,
adolescents, and children. A number of relevant publications are
available at this website.
Child
trafficking.com
www.childtrafficking.com/
Child
trafficking
Research Hub
www.childtrafficking.org/
End Child
Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual
Purposes (ECPAT) - International
www.ecpat.net/EI/index.asp
Human
Trafficking
and Migration
www.rferl.org/specials/migration/
This website discusses European perspectives on human trafficking, including ways in which the fall of the Iron Curtain has led to increased illegal immigration not only between European countries, but also in opening routes for immigrants from Asia and former Soviet republics. In English.
HumanTrafficking.org
www.humantrafficking.org
This website is primariliy focused on human trafficking in East Asia and the Pacific. It has country-specific information such as national laws and action plans as well as descriptions of NGO activities. Also available is a database of publications and related links.
Human
Trafficking
Search
www.humantraffickingsearch.net/
The Web.portal was created by the National
MultiCultural Institute, and provides information, news, reports, and
links on human trafficking, child labor, bonded labor, and sex
slavery. A world map allows the user to search an individual
country. Users may also search the database of information by
words and phrases.
International Organization for Migration
www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp
The International Organization (IOM) is an
intergovernmental body to protect the interests of migrants, to
encourage migration as a form of social and economic development, and
to handle the organizational challenges of migration. Its web
site contains information about the organization, links to recent news
releases concerning the IOM, statements made by IOM members, names and
contact details for its field offices, and many full text press
migration, trafficking in persons, refugee and asylum seeker migration.
Migration Policy Institute
www.migrationpolicy.org/
MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels. The website offers numerous portals to users for pursuing information of migration issues. Research programs include National Center for Immigration Integration Policy, US immigration, European migration, migration and development, and refugee protection. A database of searchable publications and factsheets is also available.
The Polaris Project
to Combat the Trafficking
in Women and Children
actioncenter.polarisproject.org/
The website includes a
searchable
database of sex trafficking issues, a database with detailed profiles
of hundreds of global anti-trafficking organizations, an extensive
online forum, and a legal database of trafficking cases and laws from
around the world.
The
Protection
Project
www.protectionproject.org
The goal of the Protection
Project is
"to research and document the global scope of the problem of
trafficking in persons, and through the dissemination of relevant and
timely information, to influence policy and practice in the war against
trafficking." Country-specific reports are available, as well as
other
publications dealing with the issue of human trafficking.
Trafficking
in
Human Beings - U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime
www.unodc.org/unodc/trafficking_human_beings.html
This website
provides
information about the UN Global Programme against Trafficking in Human
Beings of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The
program "assists member states in their efforts to combat trafficking
in human beings. It highlights the involvement of organized criminal
groups in human trafficking and promotes the development of effective
ways of cracking down on perpetrators."
Child
Center for Children at Risk in the Baltic Sea Region
www.childcentre.info/
The Child Centre is the web support
of a regional cooperation to raise the level of knowledge and to
coordinate the activities targeting children at risk in the Baltic Sea
Region. The five areas prioritised in the co-operation are: Child
sexual abuse and exploitation, children in the street, children in
institutions, young perpetrators of crimes and child trafficking and
unaccompanied children. The Child Centre is a part of the Children's
Unit within the secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States
that includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation and Sweden.
Child
Rights
Information Network -CRIN
www.crin.org/
The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a global network that
disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organisations (NGOs),
United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organisation (IGOs),
educational institutions, and other child rights experts. This
site includes a searchable database of publications on a variety of
related topics including children in conflict with the law, violence
against children, and the sexual exploitation of children.
Consortium for Street Children
www.streetchildren.org.uk
The Consortium for Street Children consists of 57 United Kingdom based organizations, working in 89 countries, dedicated to the welfare and rights of street living and working children and children at risk of taking to street life. The website offers links to Frequently Asked Questions, a blog, information on advocacy projects, and research and publication libraries.
Defence for Children
International
www.dci-is.org/
Defence for Children
International is
an independent non-governmental organization established in 1979 and
headquartered in Switzerland. The organization's goal is to work toward
practical means of ensuring the welfare of children worldwide,
including the field of juvenile justice.
Focal
Point on Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Abuse of Children
www.againstsexualexploitation.org/en/
This website is part of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child which together brings intergovernmental organisations and regional governmental bodies with international, regional and local NGOs in order to facilitate new and broader partnerships. This website includes information on: Sexual abuse of children; Commercial sexual exploitation of children; International human rights instruments to combat the sexual exploitation, abuse and violence of children; Regional information; News; and Links.
International
Bureau of Children's Rights
www.ibcr.org/
The International Bureau for Children's Rights (IBCR) is an
international non-governmental organization (INGO) based in Montreal,
Canada. IBCR's mission is to contribute to the promotion and protection
of the rights of the Child as laid out in the Convention on the Rights
of the Child, an international legal instrument adopted by the UN in
1989 and now ratified by 192 countries. The website includes
sections on child trafficking and children as victims.
International
Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO)
www.oijj.org/home.php
The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) is an
organization that aims to help, and provide effective strategies, based
on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN Resolution 44/25,
1989), in dealing with youths in conflict with law. The IJJO’s website
will play a role as a meeting point for interested parties working on
Juvenile Justice.
Buffalo
Criminal
Law Center
wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/resource.htm
This site provides access to criminal law materials from around the world, including a diverse assortment of legal and regulatory codes.
Coalition
for an
International Criminal Court (CICC)
www.iccnow.org/
The main purpose of the NGO
Coalition
for an International Criminal Court is to advocate for the creation of
an effective, just and independent International Criminal Court.
Global
Courts
www.globalcourts.com/
Global
Legal
Information Network
www.glin.gov/
International
Association of Prosecutors
www.iap.nl.com/
Objectives of the IAP are to promote the effective, fair, impartial and efficient prosecution of criminal offenses and to promote high standards and principles in the administration of criminal justice, including procedures to guard against or address miscarriages, in support of the rule of law.
International
Constitutional Law
www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/
Includes background and full text constitutions for over 50 countries.
International
Court of Justice
www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icjhome.htm
The Court has a dual role: to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by States, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized international organs and agencies.
International
Criminal Court
www.icc-cpi.int/
This is the website of the
International
Criminal Court (ICC), an international organization established by the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998. Its
role is to promote the rule of law and deal with the most serious
international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and
war crimes. The site provides background and historical
information about the Court and details relating to its management,
organization, and jurisdiction. The Official Journal of the
International Criminal Court contains documentation and legal texts
relating to the ICC including a copy of the Rome Statute. Both
English and French.
International
Law
Association
www.ila-hq.org
The ILA was founded in Brussels in 1873. Its objectives include the "study, elucidation and advancement of international law, public and private, the study of comparative law, the making of proposals for the solution of conflicts of law and for the unification of law, and the furthering of international understanding and goodwill".
Paul Hensel's International
Law
Page
www.paulhensel.org/intllaw.html
The International Law Page provides A to Z information on International Law. Includes information and links on human rights, warfare, law of the seas, etc.
World Legal Information Institute CatalogUnder each country there are standard headings for courts and case law, government, legislation, lawyers etc. There are more detailed subject headings (for example, banking and finance law or intellectual property) which vary from country to country. The site is in English, with Babel Fish Translation available.
CIROC -
Centre
for International and Research on Organized Crime
www.ciroc.org/
CIROC - Centre
for Information and Research on Organised Crime, is een internationaal
criminologisch kenniscentrum op het gebied van de georganiseerde
misdaad en de bestrijding ervan. Het centrum is een initiatief van de
secties Criminologie van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR), de
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), de Universiteit Maastricht (UM) en
het WODC, het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum van
het Ministerie van Justitie.
The FLARE Network
flarenetwork.org/
"FLARE - Freedom, Legality And Rights in Europe is a network made of civil society organizations for the social struggle against mafias and transnational organized crime. By informing the European civil society abouth topics such as human trafficking, narcotrafficking, corruption and information, eco-crimes and illegal weapons trade and by involving the network members, FLARE’s aim is to promote an alternative – however complementary – modus operandi than the one implemented by national institutions for the fight against transnational organized crime."
ECPR
Standing Group
on Organised Crime
www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/crime/index.htm
Transnational organized crime is a growing problem. The Standing Group aims at facilitating the development of theoretical approaches and empirical research on the topic of transnational organized crime. The Standing Group also hopes to develop and facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation, increased communication of ideas and research, and to provide more formal information via a bi-annual newsletter.
Global
Organized
Crime Project
www.csis.org/
Under the auspices of the Center
for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Global Organized Crime
project has been a leader in assessing the breadth, depth, and impact
of transnational threats (crime, terrorism, information warfare,
weapons of mass destruction proliferation etc.). This site offers
access to many of their publications.
International
Money Laundering Information Network (iMoLIN)
www.imolin.org/imolin/index.html
The
Nathanson
Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption
www.yorku.ca/nathanson/
The Nathanson Centre facilitates a range of interdisciplinary research projects that will provide empirical information about, and analysis of, organized criminal and corruption activity in the world. Includes links and bibliographies on organized crime and corruption.
Organisation
for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
www.oecd.org/home/
The OECD is an organization that provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy. They compare experiences, seek answers to common problems and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies that increasingly in today's globalized world must form a web of even practice across nations.
TRANSCRIMEResearch group on transnational crime, based out of the Department of Law at the University of Trento in Italy. TransCrime seeks to analyze trends and evaluate policies. Several of their publications are available through the site; most are in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format.
Transnational
Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)
www.american.edu/traccc/
TraCCC is an institute dedicated to the research of trends in organized crime and corruption. It provides information and facilitates discussion and cooperation among the international scholarly community, legislative and executive branches of government, non governmental organizations, law enforcement agencies, the business community, the media and the public.
The association's goals are the advancement of the science and art of police services; to develop and disseminate improved administrative, technical and operational practices and promote their use in police work; to foster police cooperation and the exchange of information and experience among police administrators throughout the world; to bring about recruitment and training in the police profession of qualified persons; and to encourage adherence of all police officers to high professional standards of performance and conduct.
International
Association of Women Police
www.iawp.org/
The International Association of Women Police strives to ensure equity for women in the criminal justice field, through utilizing, investing, and celebrating the individual strengths, talents, and skills of their members.
International
Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
www.interpol.int
The aim of the INTERPOL is to provide essential services for the law enforcement community to optimize the international effort to combat crime. Interpol supports the exchange of information, facilitates international co-operation, and co-ordinates joint operational activities of member countries.
International Police AssociationIPA is committed to the principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Its’ aims include the development of cultural relations amongst it's members, a broadening of their general knowledge and an exchange of professional experience.
Officer.Com
www.officer.com/forlaw.htm
This site offers access to websites on police and law enforcement agencies around the world. Sites range from the German Supreme Court Cases to Australia's Police Law Bulletin to Italy's Observatory on Criminality.
Police
International.Com
www.policeinternational.com/index.htm
Over 9,000 police and law enforcement agencies' links are available.
Central Intelligence Agency - The World Factbook
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issus for 266 world entities."
Choike: A Portal on Southern Civil Societies
www.choike.org
Searchable website dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs and social movements from the South. It includes a directory of NGOs, a selection of materials produced by NGOs which contain information of relevance to civil society, reports on key issues.
Social
Science
Information Gateway
sosig.ac.uk/social_science_general/
Searchable collection of on-line reports.
Tourism and Crime in the Caribbean
www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/3954/mcelroy.pdf
This study reviews the general literature on tourism and crime and the recent history of violent and property crime in several Caribbean destinations. It highlights the failure of most previous research to discriminate crimes against visitors versus residents. Annual crime data (accumulated from 1989 to 1993) for Barbados are analyzed and reveal that overall visitor victimization rates are higher than resident rates. The paper concludes with a number of measures to enhance visitor safety.
UN
Centre for
International Crime Prevention
www.uncjin.org/
Center for International Crime Prevention is the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention, criminal justice and criminal law reform. It pays special attention to combating transnational organized crime, corruption and illicit trafficking in human beings.
UN
Global
Statistics:
UN Statistics Division
unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
Includes links to the statistical websites of most countries in the world. Organized by continent.
UN
Interregional
Crime and Justice Research Institute
(UNICRI)
www.unicri.it
The objective of the Institute is to contribute, through research, training, field activities and the collection, exchange and dissemination of information, to the formulation and implementation of improved policies in the field of crime prevention and control, due regard being paid to the integration of such policies within broader policies for socio-economic change and development, and to the protection of human rights.
UN
Surveys on
Crime Trends and the Operations of
Criminal Justice Systems
www.uncjin.org/Statistics/WCTS/wcts.html
The major goal of the United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems is to collect data on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems with a view to improving the analysis and dissemination of that information globally.
University
of
Leeds, Criminal Justice Web links
www.law.leeds.ac.uk/cjlinks
Comprehensive collection of links to UK, European and International criminal justice websites.
WHO
Mortality
Database
www.ciesin.org/IC/who/MortalityDatabase.html
Contains the latest data from the World Health Organization's mortality database on causes of death, causes of infant death, life expectancy and age-standardized death rates.
The International Institute of Restorative Justice's website offers access to research in support of their goals: the development of restorative justice practices. The "Library" link permits access to a large number of publications, as well as the opportunity to join their ongoing "eForum" information service.
Restorative
Justice Online
www.restorativejustice.org
This site is sponsored by the Prison Fellowship International. The "Resources" section offers links to sources from around the world, including Council of Europe and United Nations documents, while the "Web Tour" includes links to relevant websites. Most documents are in English; some are in Spanish, French, and Russian.
Victim
Offender
Mediation Association (VOMA)
www.voma.org
VOMA is an international membership association that "supports and assists people and communities working at restorative models of justice." The site provides a restorative justice bibliography and access to full-text publications.
This website includes links to
several
pages on terrorism, with several publications available for
downloading, including CIA reports on terrorism, foreign policy
impact
reports, and more.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
www.carnegieendowment.org/topic/index.cfm?fa=viewTopic&topic=3000105
This site provides free access to the full text of a collection of articles, opinion pieces, working papers, and reports published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. They related to the 'war against terrorism,' the fight against Al-Qaeda, and US counter-terrorist policy. Materials are available from 2001 to date.
Center
For Defense Information
www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?programid=39
"CDI's Terrorism
Program is designed to provide insights, in-depth analysis and facts on
the military, security and foreign policy challenges related to
terrorism." The website includes press release, reports, and
issue briefs.
Center
for the
Study of Hate and Extremism
California
State
University, San Bernardino
hatemonitor.csusb.edu/index_old.html
This site includes a section on the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It provides headline news, links, and photos.
Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation
www.globalct.org/index.php
The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, a project of the Fourth Freedom Forum, is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that works to improve coordination of the international community's response to terrorism by providing governments and international and regional organizations with timely, policy-relevant research, analysis, and recommendations. Users can find links to reports, policy briefs, articles, workshop/event summaries, discussion/background papers, and remarks by staff of the Center of Global Counterterrorism Cooperation.
Counter
Terrorism
Committee
www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1373/
The Counter Terrorism Committee
(CTC)
is
a body of the United Nations, which is comprised of states on the U.N.
Security Council. It seeks to promote national and international
counter-terrorism actions and legislation. The website provides access
to detailed membership and activities, press releases, full text
reports, resolutions, and statements.
Criminal
Justice
Resources – Terrorism Groups and Related Issues
www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/terror.htm
Annotated links to terrorism related websites.
CSIS
Terrorism
War Update
www.csis.org/features/warupdate.htm
The CSIS website provides access to a collection of papers, reports, and commentaries written by scholars from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on topics, including the role of the United Nations in the war against terrorism, rebuilding Afghanistan, improvements in American national defense, and whether the war on terrorism should be expanded to include Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
Human
Security Centre
www.humansecuritycentre.org/
"The
Human Security Centre's mission is to make human security-related
research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the
media, educators and the interested public." This website is
maintained by University of British Columbia, Canada.
International
Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research
www.pvtr.org/
The International Centre for Political
Violence and Terrorism Research is based at the Institute of Defence
and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore. The Centre's objective is to integrate academic
research with practical knowledge, with a special focus on South
Asia. The site provides access to news updates, press release,
some full-text papers and analysis of key terrorist attacks and
incidents in the region. Key countries covered include:
India, Pakistan, Bali, Thailand, and Indonesia.
International
Instruments Related to the Prevention
and
Suppression of International Terrorism
www.un.org/Pubs/whatsnew/e01028.htm
Presents a compilation of
universal and regional instruments on terrorism
International
Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
www.ict.org.il
This site offers several articles (available through the "Counter-Terrorism" link), along with databases describing terrorist group profiles and activities, plus news updates. The organization has separate subpages devoted to the terrorism aspects of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. The site also includes a page of links to other relevant sites.
Legal
resources
on terrorism, provided by the American Society International Law Website
www.eisil.org/index.php?sid=828283902&cat=32&t=sub_pages
A collection of documents and
compilation of links on international criminal law and terrorism, in
the context of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington,
DC, on September 11, 2001. This service has been made freely available
on the American Society of International Law website.
Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) - Lawson Information Center
www.terrorisminfo.mipt.org/
South
Asia
Terrorism Portal
www.satp.org/default.asp
The South Asia Terrorism Portal
is an
indispensable resource for all individuals and institutions the world
over that seek information, data, commentary, research, critical
assessment and analysis on terrorism, low intensity warfare and
sectarian strife in South Asia. The South Asia Terrorism Portal website
is a project created and executed by the Institute for Conflict
Management.
Terrorism:
Documents and Links
www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/iir/eng/Terrorism.html
This site is maintained by
Frederik
Naert of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Institute for
International Law. Access to a useful set of links to resources
relating to the fight against terrorism is available, including
treaties, international conventions, UN Security Council Resolutions,
and some National government legislation and reports. Topics
covered also include investigations into the
9/11 bombings, the war against terrorism, conflict with Iraq,
Afghanistan
and global security threats.
Terrorism
Intelligence Threats Assessment
www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror.htm
This site is maintained by the Federation of American Scientists, and features reports including Patterns of Global Terrorism, Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans, and Terrorism in the United States, by the FBI. Also includes links to a wide variety of terrorism sources.
Terrorism:
Questions & Answers
Terrorist
Group
Profiles:
Naval Postgraduate School
www.nps.edu/Library/Research/SubjectGuides/SpecialTopics/TerroristProfile/TerroristGroupProfiles.html
This site links to the US State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism publications, and presents chronologies of significant terrorist incidents and a listing and profiles of currently recognized terrorist groups.
Transatlantic
Responses to Terrorism: British American
Security Information Council
www.basicint.org/terrorism/index.htm
This site provides access to a
collection of materials maintained by the British American Security
Information Council (BASIC) relating to international security in the
post-September 11, 2001 era. BASIC provides access to full text
reports, links to newspaper articles, and reports from international
governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Transnational
Crime and International Terrorism:
ASEAN
Communiques
and Publications
www.aseansec.org/4964.htm
This section of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) website provides information on measures to combat terrorism in Southeast Asia. It includes the full text of joint communiques, press releases, declarations and other documents that have been published since the mid 1990s.
UN
Action Against
Terrorism
www.un.org/terrorism/
This website includes all United Nations links regarding terrorism.
The mission of the IVW is to facilitate implementation of the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power by disseminating information about current victimology research and about what works, what doesn't, what's promising in victim servic