The meeting was a resounding success, with all leading global criminal justice libraries represented. Also available are the many reports and updates of the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics. Interactive communication is also now possible on the system, and lively discussions occur daily among members. There are selections from the United Nations surveys of crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems, legislative updates, directories of criminal justice research organizations around the world, directories of criminal justice journals, reports from research institutes, and an extensive collection of Bureau of Justice Statistics reports, many available well before they are actually published. The profiles will provide a richer description of the criminal justice systems of each member country in an effort to establish a context within which to interpret criminal justice statistics.
Email is an alternative means of communication.
Through a system of individual mailboxes, established in a central location, Email allows messages, documents and data, created by any type of microcomputer, to be sent and retrieved from nearly all locations in the world. In addition, Email allows staff on mission to send and receive correspondence at any time, and it completely removes the problem of telephone tag. The basic service offered by Email is the transmission of messages, documents and data in an efficient and cost-effective manner. They can be in plain text format or in the appropriate application format. This means that files created in Wordperfect, Lotus and dBase can be transferred between users without loss of formatting characters, macros or structures.