How uNcJin began UNCJIN started with a core group of the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, United Nations Office at Vienna, and the following institutes related to the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute(UNICRI), at Rome: Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), at Tokyo Latin american institute for the prevention of crime and treatment of Offenders(ILANUD), at San Jose; Helsinki Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations(HEUNI), at Helsinki: Arab Security studies and Training Centre, at Riyadh; Australian Institute of Criminology at Canberra: and Centro nazionale di prevenzione e difesa Sociale. at mil an The electronic communications system used to establish UNCJIN was the Telecommunications Cooperative Network (TCN), a non-profit international computer network with considerable previous United Nations experience. TCN offered training and assistance in setting up the information service. TeN provides its service by contracting through the DIALCOM system. There are many non-profit networks as well as United Nations organizations connected to this particular system. One advantage of being connected to a network including so many other organizations is that UNCJIN members can benefit from the information services offered by other organizations on the network. News of developing countries, for example, is constantl available, as is a recently added Aids daily update and a resources databaseHow UNCJIN began UNCJIN started with a core group of the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, United Nations Office at Vienna, and the following institutes related to the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), at Rome; Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), at Tokyo; Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), at San Jose; Helsinki Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI), at Helsinki; Arab Security Studies and Training Centre, at Riyadh; Australian Institute of Criminology, at Canberra; and Centro Nazionale di Prevenzione e Difesa Sociale, at Milan. The electronic communications system used to establish UNCJIN was the Telecommunications Cooperative Network (TCN), a non-profit international computer network with considerable previous United Nations experience. TCN offered training and assistance in setting up the information service. TCN provides its service by contracting through the DIALCOM system. There are many non-profit networks as well as United Nations organizations connected to this particular system. One advantage of being connected to a network including so many other organizations is that UNCJIN members can benefit from the information services offered by other organizations on the network. News of developing countries, for example, is constantly available, as is a recently added AIDS daily update and a resources database