Crime Prevention and Control Prevention du crime et lutte contre la delinquance Prevention del delito y lucha contra el crimen ripeaynpeayieHHe npecrynHOCTH h oopi.Ga c Heft mWMQeSiJ £Jji United Nations ST/CS/SER.F/340 English- French- Spanish Russian-Chinese- Arabic DEPARTMENT OF CONFERENCE SERVICES TRANSLATION DIVISION DOCUMENTATION, REFERENCE AND TERMINOLOGY SECTION Terminology Bulletin No. 340 Crime Prevention and Control Prevention du crime et lutte contre la delinquance Prevencion del delito y lucha contra el crimen ripenynpoKxteHHe npecTyrmocTH h 6opt>6a c Heii UNITED 'NATIONS New York • 1990 - i FOREWORD This terminology bulletin has been prepared in conjunction with the coming Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders and is a compilation of terms found in recent United Nations documents on the subject, including materials from the previous Congress, documents prepared for preparatory meetings for the coming Congress, reports and resolutions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and reports of the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control. Where possible the terms have been checked against authoritative monolingual reference works and legal codes, which also provided explanatory information included in notes to some of the entries. The selection of terms was made by the Documentation, Reference and Terminology Section, with equivalents selected in collaboration with the Translation Services. Corrections and additions would be welcome and should be communicated to the Chief of Section, DRATS, DCS, Room S-1153B. AVANT-PROPOS Le present bulletin de terminologie a ete prepare en prevision du Huitieme Congres des Nations Unies pour la prevention du crime et le traitement des delinquents. 11 regroupe des termes tires de documents recents des Nations Unies en la matiere, et notamment de la documentation du congres precedent, des reunions preparatoires du Huitieme Congres, des rapports et 
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Crime prevention and control, Law enforcement