Reducing Reoffending Through Rehabilitation and Reintegration

A/RES/78/224View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 107 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2022–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/187

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/187	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	824	46%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/224	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	1,018	65%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/232	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	1,086	62%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/182	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	727	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Conferences Crime Prevention Groups of Experts Offenders Recidivists Rehabilitation

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Encourages Member States to develop comprehensive strategies or action plans to reduce reoffending through effective interventions for the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders;

Also encourages Member States to promote a rehabilitative environment in correctional facilities, including through designing and implementing effective treatment programmes based on an individual assessment of the needs of and risks faced by offenders, and to provide offenders with access to vocational and technical training and educational programmes to support them in developing the skills necessary for reintegration;

Further encourages Member States, as appropriate and in line with domestic legislation, to take into account the relevant and appropriate United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, mainstream a gender perspective into their criminal justice systems, support the development of necessary skills among offenders in correctional facilities and facilitate working opportunities, where appropriate, to promote the social rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders;

Recognizes the benefit that may be derived from incorporating respect for cultural diversity, based on respect for the rule of law, into rehabilitation and reintegration programmes;

Encourages Member States to promote rehabilitation approaches and programmes within their judicial systems empowered to deal with specific problems, such as social or mental health issues;

Also encourages Member States to promote a rehabilitative environment in the community to facilitate the social reintegration of offenders with the active involvement of local communities, giving due regard to the need to protect society and individuals and the rights of victims and offenders;

Further encourages Member States to promote multi-stakeholder partnerships to reduce reoffending by fostering inter-agency coordination among relevant government authorities, such as employment and social welfare agencies and local governments, as well as public-private partnerships between those authorities and the community, including cooperating employers and community volunteers who support the long-term and social reintegration of offenders;

Expresses appreciation to Member States that shared with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, through written contributions, information on promising practices for possible inclusion in draft model strategies on reducing reoffending, for consideration by the open-ended intergovernmental expert group to be convened pursuant to its resolution 77/232;

Takes note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat examining preliminary areas for consideration by the open-ended intergovernmental expert group;⁷

⁷E/CN.15/2023/13.

Strongly encourages Member States to actively participate in the meeting of the open-ended intergovernmental expert group and to include in their delegations experts from a variety of relevant disciplines;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, to support the efforts of Member States to reduce reoffending through the promotion of rehabilitative environments and reintegration by providing technical assistance, including material support, upon request, to Member States, in particular developing countries, taking into account their needs and priorities, as well as challenges and restrictions;

Invites Member States and other donors to provide extrabudgetary resources for the purposes outlined in the present resolution, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the United Nations.

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