The dissemination of United Nations crime and justice information: future developments of UNCJIN

Abstract

The changing environment and the increasing pressure to reduce the cost of publishing have forced the Centre of International Crime Prevention to look for alternatives to paper-based publishing. To adopt the web as platform for disseminating information as soon as it became practicable therefore was a very natural environment. The goal of this paper is to show, by the example of the Centre, how an international organisation has successfully managed to establish its presence on the Internet with help from partner organisations and universities. The second aim is to give an impression of how the web can be used as information and discussion platform by the international criminological community and which future development lies ahead.