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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

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Introduction

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is an office of the United Nations located at Vienna. The entry discusses its establishment and role in providing programs across the globe to support states in their fight against crime and the drug problem.

Establishment

In 1997, the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime were combined to form the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. At the time, the name appeared to capture elements from both offices with the words “drug control” taken directly from the United Nations Drug Control Programme and “crime prevention” taken directly from the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime. These two agencies were merged because the United Nations (UN) Secretary General created an association of UN agencies called the United Nations Development Group. This was done in response to calls for better UN coordination of development issues...

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  1. The Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica

    Suzette A. Haughton

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  1. University of Alberta, Alberta, AB, Canada

    Scott Romaniuk

  2. University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica

    Manish Thapa

  3. Nemzetkozi Tanulmanyok Intezet, Rm 503, Corvinus Univ, Inst of Intl Studies, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter Marton

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Haughton, S.A. (2019). United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_149-1

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