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The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program: Formulation of Standards and Efforts at Their Implementation

Author(s): Clark, Roger S.

Hardcover - 352 pages (1994)
ISBN: 0-8122-3269-0

Price: US $47.50

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About This Publication

In December 1991 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution entitled "Creation of an Effective United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program." That resolution sought to consolidate and restructure a program in international cooperation in the criminal justice area that had existed from the early days of the United Nations. In particular, the resolution provided for the creation of a new intergovernmental body to oversee the program, the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

This book examines the UN program and its prospects under the arrangements devised by the General Assembly. Clark concisely recounts its history and its activities, describes the adoption of the various United Nations norms and standards that originated within the program, provides a detailed consideration of some of the major instruments adopted under the auspices of the program, and examines efforts to progress from the promulgation of standards and norms to their monitoring and implementation.

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About The Author(s)

Roger Clark, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers School of Law, is a prolific scholar in international law and human rights and criminal law. A member of the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control between 1986 and 1990, he has written over seventy articles and five books, most recently The Prosecution of International Crimes: A Critical Study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and The Case Against the Bomb. In 1995 and 1996 he represented the Government of Samoa in arguing the illegality of nuclear weapons before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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Reviews

Bruce Zagaris, American Journal of International Law
Roger S. Clark, professor at the Rutgers Law School, has written a unique and important work in international enforcement. His book is the first to examine in a comprehensive and analytical manner the post-1945 activities of the United Nations in criminal justice, and especially the evolving organizational structures and initiatives of the United Nations with regard to setting and implementing standards in the area. The book serves as a useful guide and catalogue for this rather esoteric area of international and comparative law. . . . The book combines criminal justice, international law and organizational analyses. It is well annotated and enables both the practitioner and the academic to explore areas of interest in further detail. It can also be useful in teaching courses on international law, especially international criminal law and comparative criminal law. While books on international criminal law are not usually susceptible to use in comparative law courses, Clark's work can serve as a measuring stick of comparative approaches to criminal justice, including the responses and approaches of different legal systems to the activities of the UN program. . . . Clark's work will thus be extremely valuable for years to come, both as an analytical tool and as a basic resource.

Norval Morris, Criminal Law Forum
Roger Clark's book on the efforts of the United Nations in this field is accurate, well written, and perceptive. It is an essential foundation of knowledge for anyone who seeks to understand the problems of international collaboration in crime control. . . . [the] book is clear-eyed, on both the promise and the present weaknesses of the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program — and, a further bonus, it is excellently organized and gracefully written.

International Enforcement Law Reporter
This book combines criminal justice, international law, and organizational analyses. It serves as a useful overview and catalogue of UN criminal justice standards for a variety of professionals and can be used in teaching courses on international law and comparative criminal law. The work will be extremely valuable for years to come.

Future Survey
The first book in any language to examine UN activities since 1945 in criminal justice and to critically assess evolving organizational structures and efforts at setting and implementing standards.

Criminal Law Review
A valuable sourcebook for those interested in criminal justice policy the world over.

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