文档介绍：United Nations A/
Tenth
Distr.: General
United Nations Congress 2 March 2000
on the Prevention of Crime
Original: English
and the Treatment of Offenders
Vienna, 10-17 April 2000
Item 6 of the provisional agenda*
Offenders and victims: accountability and fairness
in the justice process
Women in the criminal justice system
Background paper for the workshop on women in the criminal justice
system**
Summary
The present paper presents four modules for discussion in the workshop on women
in the criminal justice system, each dealing with a different aspect of the situation of
women vis-à-vis criminal justice systems within the framework of anized
crime: (a) women as offenders and prisoners; (b) women as victims and survivors;
(c) women in the criminal justice system; and (d) research and policy issues. The paper
highlights the disproportionately adverse impact that anized crime has
on women, as particularly disadvantaged or vulnerable victims, and the importance of
gender mainstreaming in the field of criminal justice.
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** The Secretary-General wishes to acknowledge the contribution to the preparations for the workshop made
by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations, in
cooperation with the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Latin American Institute for the Prevention of
Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, the National Institute of Justice of the United States Department of
Justice and the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, and by
Frances Heidensohn at Goldsmith University of London. The workshop is anized by the European
Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, in cooperation with the above-mentioned institutes and centres
and the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the Secretariat. A preparatory meeting for the
workshop was held in Helsinki on 9 and 10 April 1999.
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