United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Characterization/impurity profiling studies can help to answer a wide variety of questions ranging from dealer-user relationships, drug source, distribution networks, and trafficking routes to...

In today’s fast moving society, the pressure to excel in sports, have fun on the social scene, and escape reality for various reasons is high especially amongst the younger generation. Young people...

This report captures the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Bangkok, 18-25 April 2005)

Garnered through the proceeds of illicit trafficking and other forms of organized profit-motivated crime, dirty money promotes bribery and corruption and finances insurgency. It also destabilizes and...

The purpose of this module is to introduce key ethical principles and discuss how they can be applied in epidemiological research on drug use. Major ethical challenges for drug epidemiology are...

While there has been a general trend towards enacting money-laundering laws that provide for the lifting of financial secrecy in appropriate cases, such secrecy remains a barrier in many jurisdictions...

Firearms Trafficking in the Sahel is part of a series of transnational organized crime threat assessment reports on the Sahel. The report explores firearms trafficking in the Sahel by looking at the...

Prepared by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, this toolkit includes a module on focus assessment studies. The philosophy behind the GAP Toolkit is to provide a practical and accessible guide to...

The manual seeks to provide guidance on international legal instruments against FTF activities and techniques for digital investigation and evidence collection, especially concerning global financial...