The Documentation/Information Centre produces the Bibliography on Trafficking in Human Beings, the Bibliography on Organized Crime and Corruption and the Bibliography on Environmental Crimes.

The documents are available in hard copy and may be consulted at the Institute. The databases enable many of the documents to be consulted via the relevant electronic link as well.

The Centre also produces the UNICRI Bibliography series that includes a selection of publications acquired by the UNICRI Library.

Since its establishment in 1969, the Documentation Centre has built a comprehensive collection of data to contribute to the global sharing of criminal justice information and to assist the international community in formulating and implementing improved policies on crime and justice.

The activities of the Centre include the collection, analysis and dissemination of legislative, statistical and bibliographic documents that form the library holdings.

The Library holds more than 20.000 monographs, 1.250 journals and yearbooks, tens of thousands documents by the United Nations System, other international and regional organizations, national institutions and NGOs, multimedia material, grey literature on crime prevention and criminal justice issues.

The Centre offers on-line access to all its services, such as the library catalogue and criminological thesaurus, electronic resources, bibliographies, directories, tables of contents, full-text articles and publications, abstracts of monographs and personalized alerts targeted to the needs of its users.

The UNICRI Library is part of a strong network of United Nations and UN system libraries, that share expertise, best practices and resources, and cooperate to ensure the best quality of products and services for their users.

The Centre offers worldwide experts a resource for the development and implementation of technical interventions and research, supports training activities, produces and disseminates UNICRI publications, provides information on the Institute mandate, scope of activities, past and current programmes.

UNICRI is constantly expanding its activities in the field of post-graduate education, offering a wide range of on-campus and decentralised training to provide for a variety of professional needs. UNICRI’s work draws on an extensive network with high level universities and research institutions around the world.

Along with a series of post-graduate short-courses on topics which fall within the scope of UNICRI’s mandate on crime prevention and criminal justice.

UNICRI is currently expanding areas of cooperation in the Global South to encompass a range of training and educational activities at the post-graduate and professional level with the purpose of strengthening the capacity of the criminal justice system and the rule of law. UNICRI’s training expertise and ability to design courses, elaborate manuals and provide instruction, serve as means of reinforcing the legal field in developing countries.

2009-2010 marked the beginning of UNICRI assistance to the Lao PDR where UNICRI established a strong cooperation with the national Government in the field of capacity building and training for judicial personnel.

UNICRI is part of the UNDAF Action Plan 2012-2015 in the country and has also cooperated in the design of the Legal Sector Master Plan in line with the “One UN” approach.

Integrated knowledge management through research and the dissemination of relevant information on crime prevention and criminal justice is one of UNICRI’s core objectives. This objective is reliant upon specialized training and education activities. UNICRI’s vision for the Training and Advanced Education programme is based on the need for coordinated information sharing. The availability and selection of necessary and sufficient data and its methodological transfer must be guaranteed through networking with academic institutions, international organizations and research centres, as well as individual experts.

In carrying out these objectives, UNICRI offers a series of post-graduate classes and short courses on topics that fall within the scope of its mandate. In 2013-14, UNICRI is offering its eighth annual LL.M. programme in International Crime and Justice in collaboration with the Department of Law of the University of Turin, and is attended by 46 post-graduate students from 29 countries.

In order to increase competency and share expertise, UNICRI, acting upon the request of member states, designs and implements a variety of specialized training courses for executives and judicial personnel aimed at building and reinforcing their potential. UNICRI works in partnership with different countries on a wide range of training and education activities with the purpose to enhance legal awareness and promote greater understanding of fundamental rights, crime prevention and criminal justice. In this regard, the Institute has developed a global network for the exchange of information on training and advanced education in crime prevention and criminal justice at the international level. New Masters degree programmes and short courses which fall within the scope of UNICRI’s specific expertise in crime prevention and criminal justice are continually being developed, whilst educational institutions around the world are being given increased support in their application of UNICRI’s advanced training methodologies.

Special focus is given to education and training in developing countries at graduate, post-graduate and professional levels in order to strengthen criminal justice systems and the rule of law. Furthermore, given its unique operational approach together with the substantive methodological and organizational skills of UNICRI’s staff, the Institute possesses the standing capacity to design and implement high-level training courses (in-house and on-site, face-to-face and e-learning) and create training manuals in the area of crime prevention, criminal justice, international criminal law and human rights. Tailor-made specialized training programmes for judicial personnel continue to be delivered in-house or on the field upon the request of member states.

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