United Nations criminology 2016-2030: Nihil novi sub sole?

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2016 the United Nations has embarked on a ground-breaking implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The next 15 years will show whether educational theorists, academic criminologists and students have taken on board relevant crime prevention and criminal justice recommendations, a few of which have been addressed in this article. Its aim is to familiarize the reader with these recommendations and the implications they have for teaching Criminology, including pursuing related recommendations in a pro-social, action-oriented and rational manner. The article calls for globally innovative programming of teaching Criminology with a view to contributing to the implementation of the SDGs, to be accounted for at the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Japan, 2020). Keywords: crime prevention • criminology • education • environment • logic • organized crime • sustainable development • teaching • United NationsStreszczenie: W 2016 roku Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych/ONZ rozpoczęła wdrażanie celów zrównoważonego rozwoju. Kolejnych 15 lat pokaże, czy teoretycy edukacji, kryminolodzy akademiccy i studenci uznali rekomendacje Organizacji dotyczące zapobiegania przestępczości i wymiaru sprawiedliwości w sprawach Article history: Received: 25.10.2015 Accepted: 03.11.2015 Published: 03.12.2015 Sławomir Redo Academic Council on the United Nations System (Liaison Office, Vienna, Austria) F. United Nations Senior Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Expert and staff of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (ret.) Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I 'll understand. 1 Something has to be done to make professors as interested in teaching as they are in their own scholarly advancements. IntroductionEvery now and then Criminology faces new approaches to its field heralded by titles like "New Horizons in Criminology" [10], "The New Criminology" [50], "New Directions in the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders" [29], "The New Criminal Justice" [27] in which its authors present fundamental, in their opinion, crime prevention and criminal justice research and education issues. The United Nations sustainable development goals (UN SDGs) agenda 2016-2030 [6], which sets an entirely new paradigm for that research and education, is another case in point [45, vol. II, part VII]. The Thirteenth United Nations Congresses on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice made in 2015 the first inroads into that agenda [7], and at the forthcoming Fourteenth Congress (Japan, 2020) Member States and other participants will make an interim report on the implementation of the relevant parts of the UN SDGs.Since this ideological and political "soft" United Nations tool with 17 goals with 169 targets is too big for one take, this article brings into discussion one essential issue ensuing from it, namely the importance of the UN SDGs for teaching Criminology at tertiary-level institutions. In this agenda the United Nations is ...

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