United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice

Requests the Secretary-General to convene a meeting of a group of experts, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary funds, to evaluate the results achieved and the progress made in the application of existing UN standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, to review the present system of reporting, to assess the advantages to be expected in using a cross-sectoral approach and to make concrete proposals to be considered by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its 12th session; invites Member States to make available voluntary funds for technical cooperation projects in the area of criminal justice reform; invites Member States to undertake the necessary efforts to solve the problem of prison overcrowding, inter alia, by, if necessary, introducing or making appropriate use of alternatives to imprisonment.

Adopted without vote, 37th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2002, New York, 14 Jan. and 12-15 Feb. 2002; resumed organizational session for 2002, New York, 29 and 30 April 2002; substantive session of 2002, New York, 1-26 July 2002; resumed substantive session of 2002, New York, 4 and 25 Oct. and 19 Dec. 2002 - E/2002/99 - p. 48-50 - (ESCOR, 2002, Suppl. no. 1).