Introduction/foreword --
Report from the Rapporteur -- Rob Allen
Keynote address -- Manfred Nowak -- Session I: International standards : implementation and review
Presentation of the General report of the Latin American Permanent Committee for the revision and update on the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners -- Eugene Raúl Zaffaroni and Edmundo Oliveira
Survey of United Nations and other best practices in the treatment of prisoners in the criminal justice system -- Kathleen Macdonald
The Russian version of the manual "International Prison Policy Instrument" -- Terhi Viljanen and Kauko Aromaa
Corrections/prisons in the United Nations peacekeeping operations -- Richard Kuuire -- Session II: Social reintegration as the objective of treatment of prisoners
Community social reintegration -- Iowane Naivalurua
Out for good : an innovative Canadian project in community supervision -- James Bonta, Mary Campbell and Shawn Tupper -- Session III: Oversight and monitoring of prisoners : essential to ensure good treatment
Torture prevention network : topics for planned action -- Mario Luis Coriolano
South African Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services -- Deon van Zyl -- Session IV: Special groups with special rights and needs
La experiencia Española en Drogas y VIH/SIDA, su prevención, tratamiento y atención en las prisones -- Enrique Acín García
Nuevo paradigma en el acceso a la salud en las cárceles argentinas -- Martin E. Vázquez Acuña
The efficiency of the complex approach in keeping under control the spread of HIV infections among detainees serving sentences in the penitentiary institutions of Moldova -- Vadim Cojocaru
Introduction to the theme of women prisoners -- Tomris Atabay
Good practices on the treatment of women in prison : a proposal for Supplementary rules for the treatment of women prisoners and non-custodial measures for women offenders -- Vitaya Suriyawong
Buenas prácticas en el tratamiento de las personas privadas de libertad - mujeres privadas de libertad en América a Latina -- María Noel Rodríguez
Quand la privation de Liberté s'inscrit dans le Projet de vie d'une fille mineure en conflit avec la loi -- Mouin Chehade et Rose-Marie Tannous -- Session V: Mobilizing societies and resources for improving social reintegration of prisoners
Communication strategies to create a better understanding of what prison can (and can't) do for society and under what circumstances -- Mary Murphy
Annex 1: Workshop Programme --
Annex 2: Congress documents. --
Workshop 2: Survey of United Nations and other best practices in the treatment of prisoners in the criminal justice system background paper.

Survey of United Nations and other best practices in the treatment of prisoners in the criminal justice system : proceedings of the workshop held at the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Salvador, Brazil, 12-19 April 2010

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Vienna, A-1400; United Nations European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI) Helsinki 00531

United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (12th 2010 Salvador, Brazil)

ed. by Kauko Aromaa & Terhi Viljanen

Includes bibliographical references.
Text in English, Spanish, and French.

This report consists of eight chapters designed to deal with all central issues addressed in the UN-CTS questionnaire. First, police-recorded crime is discussed with separate chapters on homicides, other police-recorded crimes, and drug-related crime and drug trafficking (chapters 1-3). Chapter 4 analyzes complex crimes separately, such as organized crime, and human trafficking; these crimes have played a marginal role in traditional crime statistics, and in order to improve the relevance of the data on such offenses, new solutions need to be developed. Chapter 5 presents data on responses of the criminal justice system, including an innovation where attrition issues are discussed. Parallel issues to responses of the criminal justice system are resources and performance; these are discussed in chapter 6, which includes a discussion on punitivity of criminal justice systems. Chapter 7 provides a presentation on prison populations of the world. Chapter 8 discusses challenges with crime and criminal justice statistics, arguing for the importance of further improvements in the area. Tables, figures, and references

The theme of the Twelfth Congress, "Comprehensive strategies for global challenges : crime prevention and criminal justice systems and their development in a changing world", was decided by the United Nations General Assembly. There were eight substantive items on the agenda covering the following issues : children, youth and crime; terrorism; crime prevention; smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons; money-laundering; cybercrime; international cooperation in fighting crime; and violence against migrants and their families