Good Practices for the Protection of Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings Involving Organized Crime

Publishers United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Document authors Chatzis Ilias Zones International Type Guide / Guidelines / Principle Date of publication 2008 Document main thematic Child Trafficking Document thematics Child Protection/ Related Topic Total pages 112

What is witness protection? What are its main elements? How is it used to strengthen criminal investigations and prosecutions? Are there any universally applicable lessons that are the secret to successful witness protection programmes? Can countries with limited human and financial resources afford programmes like the ones operated and prized by well-funded and well-resourced legal systems? These are some of the questions that the present publication seeks to answer. Some answers will come easily. In most cases, however, experience has shown that, in actuality, practice is complicated.