Chapter 36 Useful websites

  • World Prison Brief offers a wealth of insight about prison conditions globally as well as access to publications from the International Centre for Prison Studies. Under the information for individual counties, you can also look up numbers of foreign prisoners in national prison populations.
  • The Institute for Economics and Peace publishes useful reports on issues of terrorism and global security, such as the Global Terrorism Index and the Global Peace Index.
  • The International Justice Resource Centre (IJRC) provides a wealth of information and resources about human rights abuses, human rights law, and decisions of international courts on these matters.
  • UNODOC (United Office on Drugs and Crime) offers an insight into how the UN and national authorities across the world are combatting various threats of transnational crime.
  • IOM' s Missing Migrants Project offers a wealth of data about the dangers that contemporary borders represent for migrant populations.
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