The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) is the United Nations body of Member States responsible for setting out global strategy to prevent crime and promote stable criminal justice systems. The 40-member UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice formulates international policies and recommends activities in the field of crime control. It is the responsibility of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to follow-up on the decisions of the Commission and assist Member States with their implementation. The Commission offers nations a forum for exchanging expertise and information on matters of crime prevention and criminal justice and to determine strategies and priorities for combatting crime at the global level. It also provides substantive direction for the quinquennial  United Nations Congresses on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and 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.

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.

Priority areas mandated by the Council when it established the Commission in 1992 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 formulates draft resolutions for action by the Economic and Social Council. These resolutions eventually direct the work of the Centre for International Crime Prevention.

Reconvened sixteenth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (29-30 November 2007)

• membership

Reports

• CCPCJ reports

Previous sessions and documents of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice:

• Sixteenth session (Vienna, 23 - 27 April 2007)
• Fifteenth session (Vienna, 24 - 28 April 2006)
• Fourteenth session (Vienna, 23-27 May 2005)
• Thirtheenth session (Vienna, 11-20 May 2004)
• Twelfth session (Vienna, 13-22 May 2003)
• Eleventh session (Vienna, 16-25 April 2002)
• Resumed Session of the 10th Session of the Crime Commission (6-7 September 2001)
• Tenth session (Vienna, 8-17 May 2001)
• Ninth session (Vienna, 18-20 April 2000)
• Eighth session (Vienna, 27 April - 6 May 1999)
• Seventh session (Vienna, 21 - 30 April 1998)
• Sixth session (Vienna, 28 April - 9 May 1997)
• Fifth session (Vienna, 21 - 31 May 1996)
• Fourth Session (Vienna, 30 May - 9 June 1995) [report of the session only]
• Third Session (Vienna, 26 April - 6 May 1994) [report of the session only]
• Second Session (Vienna, 13 - 23 April 1993) [report of the session only]
• First Session (Vienna, 21 - 30 April 1992) [report of the session only]