Recommends that the questionnaire for the next UN Survey of Crime Trends, Operations of Criminal Justice Systems and Crime Prevention Strategies should be abbreviated and simplified, to the extent practicable without materially reducing its scope and utility, so as to increase the response rate from Member States and that the work of the next Survey should include the collection and analysis of data and of information and recommendations concerning the national use of information systems in crime prevention and the administration of justice in Member States; requests the Secretary-General to strengthen the capacity of the Secretariat to collect and analyse action-oriented recommendations on crime prevention and the administration of criminal justice, as well as crime data.

Adopted without vote, 16th meeting

Adopted at the 16th plenary meeting, 21 May 1986.
In: Resolutions and decisions / adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 1st regular session of 1986, 29 April-23 May 1986. - E/1986/INF/4. - 4 June 1986. - p. 32-33. - Issued in ESCOR, 1986, Suppl. no. 1 (E/1986/86).