A/RES/77/232
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 January 2023
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 109
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2022
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/77/464, para. 31)]
77/232.
Reducing reoffending through rehabilitation and reintegration
The General Assembly,
Recalling the outcome of the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 12 March 2021, as
reflected in the report of the Congress 1 and in the Kyoto Declaration on Advancing
Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice and the Rule of Law: Towards the Achievement
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2
Reaffirming the commitment expressed in the Kyoto Declaration to reduce
reoffending through rehabilitation and social reintegration,
Noting the deliberations of the Fourteenth Congress under the agenda item
entitled “Integrated approaches to challenges facing the criminal justice system”,
during which, inter alia, the need for practical guidance for nat ional criminal justice
systems on reducing reoffending and the recommendation to develop new United
Nations standards and norms on the issue of reducing reoffending were raised by
some Member States,
Noting also the discussions held at the workshop on the topic “Reducing
reoffending: identifying risks and developing solutions” and the three subtopics, as
reflected in the report of Committee II of the Fourteenth Congress, in particular the
encouragement given by some participants to Member States to share i nformation on
promising practices and consider the development, under the auspices of the
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and with the support of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, of model strategies to reduce reoffending
that reflect, among others, the good practices discussed during the workshop, 3
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A/CONF.234/16.
Resolution 76/181, annex.
A/CONF.234/16, chap. VII, sect. B.
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