Documentation/Information Centre

About the Centre and the Library

On 29 May 2009 the new UNICRI Vieira de Mello Building, hosting the Documentation/Information Centre, was inaugurated, dedicated to the memory of Sérgio Vieira de Mello and the other 21 victims of the bombing attack against the UN mission in Baghdad of 19 August 2003. By dedicating its building to Sérgio Vieira de Mello and his staff, UNICRI intends to pay tribute to all of the victims of terrorism and to send a message of peace and justice. The Municipality of Turin has generously offered the building hosting the Centre.

The Centre is an asset to research, training and field activities enabling the Institute to meet the needs of international organizations, national institutions, NGOs, experts and professionals.

The activities of the Centre include the collection, analysis and dissemination of legislative, statistical and bibliographic documents that form the library holdings. The Centre produces and disseminates UNICRI publications and offers on-line access to the full-text. It also provides information on the Institute mandate, scope of activities, past and current programmes.

The Centre offers worldwide experts a resource for the development and implementation of technical interventions and research. It also supports training activities and organizes initiatives targeting the general public.

The Library holdings include more than 18.000 monographs, 1.250 journals and yearbooks, tens of thousands documents by the United Nations System, other international and regional organizations, national institutions and NGOs, multimedia material, grey literature on crime prevention and criminal justice issues.

The Centre offers on-line access to all its services, such as the library catalogue, the criminological thesaurus, bibliographic databases, directories, journals' tables of contents, full-text articles, abstracts of monographs and personalized alerts targeted to the needs of its users.

The new flyer entitled "A Library Network" is now available for distribution.