文档介绍：United Nations A/
Tenth Distr.: General
United Nations Congress 15 December 1999
on the Prevention of Crime Original: English
and the Treatment of Offenders
Vienna, 10-17 April 2000
Item 1 of the provisional agenda*
Opening of the Congress
The state of crime and criminal justice worldwide
Report of the Secretary-General

Summary
In its resolution 52/91 of 12 December 1997, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to prepare an overview of the state of crime and criminal justice
worldwide for presentation at the opening of the Tenth United Nations Congress on the
Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. The present report contains a
description of major crime trends and developments since the Ninth United Nations Congress
on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held in Cairo from 29 April to
8 May 1995. In addition, it presents some criminal justice responses, both national and
international, to those trends. Preliminary findings of the Sixth United Nations Survey on
Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems are presented, as well as the
Global Programme against Corruption, the Global Programme against Trafficking in Human
Beings and the Global Study on anized Crime.
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Contents
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I. Introduction: new challenges and concerns.............................. 1-5 3
II. Recent findings ................................................... 6-26 3
A. Overall crime rates............................................. 12-13 4
B. Other trends .................................................. 14-17 7
C. Crime and political change ...................................... 18-21 7
D. Crime and stability ............................................. 22-24 8
E. Crime and technology .......................................... 25-26 8
III. Reducing and preventing crime .......................................