UNODC strives to promote evidence-based crime prevention policies and practices in order to effectively respond to violence and reduce vulnerabilities.
In its projects in Brazil, UNODC collaborates through research and monitoring of social crime, violence and drug prevention policies and actions to reduce crime among young people through citizen participation.
UNODC is also the guardian of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Mandela Rules) and promotes practices to improve the management of the prison system, focusing on the challenges generated by organized crime in prisons, in addition to strengthening cooperation between the criminal justice system and other sectors of government and civil society working on the issue.
