Reducing Reoffending Through Rehabilitation and Reintegration

E/RES/2021/21View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19c Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2021.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2021–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2024/10

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	E/RES/2024/10	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	841	47%Compare
2023	E/RES/2023/24	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	1,035	66%Compare
2022	E/RES/2022/13	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	1,103	63%Compare
2021	E/RES/2021/21	Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration	744	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences Crime Prevention Offenders Recidivists Rehabilitation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Recommends to the General Assembly the adoption of the following draft resolution:

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 and risks of 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 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;

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;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, to convene an expert group meeting to share information on promising practices to reduce reoffending, with a view to developing model strategies on reducing reoffending, which can serve as useful tools for Member States, taking into account relevant provisions in the existing standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, current developments, research, tools and the outcome of the deliberations of the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;

Also 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 their 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;

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its thirty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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