Sławomir Marek REDO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/slawomirredo
https://independent.academia.edu/S%C5%82awomirRedo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2018-4217
Positions
F. United Nations Senior Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Expert and staff of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (1981-2011), ret.
Membership
Academic Council on the United Nations System
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
European Society of Criminology
Education
2009: Habilitated Doctor of Law (Dr hab. (Law/Criminology)), University of Białystok, Poland (dissertation “The Fight against Organized Crime in Central Asia”)
1976: Doctorate in criminal law and criminology (Ph.D.); Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland (dissertation “Drug Abuse. Criminal Law and Criminological Aspects”)
1972: Higher, Master of Laws (Magister), Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Languages: Polish; English, Russian, German (United Nations proficiency examinations)
Faculty positions
2020-2022 Visiting Professor of United Nations Law, Wenlan Scholar & Chair, Law Faculty, South-Central University of Economics and Law (Zhongnan University, Wuhan, China) teaching online “The United Nations and Crime Prevention”
2012-2016 Guest Professor teaching the United Nations international and intercultural crime prevention (University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland)
2014/2018/19 Guest Professor “The United Nations and Crime Prevention” at the South-Central University for Nationalities (SCUN,Wuhan, China) and “The United Nations law for countering war crime”
2011/13 Visiting Lecturer/Privatdozent, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
1972-1981 Assistant/Adjunct at the Law Faculty, Nicolas Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland)
Awards and honors
2019 The Honorary Justice Krishna Iyer Endowment Lecture at the University of Madras (Chennai, India)
2015 Ambassador for Peace, Universal Peace Federation
2011 Fellowship of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg i. Br., Germany).
1983 Honorary Texas Citizen
1978-1979 Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies at the Department of Sociology, New York University, N.Y., and University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA)
1977 Award for the best doctoral dissertation by the scientific journal “State and Law” of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Writings
Books
Narkomania. Aspekty prawnokarne i kryminologiczne (Drug Abuse. Criminal Law and Criminological Aspects, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 1979
Organized Crime and Its Control in Central Asia , Office of International Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA, 2004
Zwalcznie Przestępczości zorganizowanej w Azji Centralnej (The Fight against Organized Crime in Central Asia), Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2007
Blue Criminology.The Power of United Nations Ideas to Counter Crime Globally, European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations, Helsinki 2012
Edited books
The Rule of Law in Retreat. Challenges to Justice in the United Nations World, Lexington Books, Lanham 2022
Co-edited books
Problemy więziennictwa u progu XXI wieku (The Problems of Corrections at the Threshold of the XXIst century), Warszawa-Wiedeń-Kalisz 1996
For the Rule of Law. Criminal Justice Teaching and Training @cross the World, Criminal Justice Press, Monsey, New York/Helsinki 2008
Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration (two volumes), Springer, Switzerland 2016
On the Road to People. Festchrift in Comemortation of the 70th Birthday of Michael K. Platzer, Vienna 2016
Refugees and Migrants in Law and Policy. Challenges and Opportunities for Global Civic Education, Springer, Switzerland 2018
Kryminologia. Stan i perspektywy rozwoju. Z uwzględnieniem założeń Agendy ONZ na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju (Criminology. The State and Perspectives of Development, including the Principles of the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030), Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2019
Crime Prevention and Justice in 2030. The UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Honour of the United Nations, Springer, Switzerland 2021
Reinvigorating the United Nations, Routledge, London and New York 2024
Selected articles[1]
Drug Abuse in Poland (Narkomania w Polsce), with A. Marek, Bulletin on Narcotics, Vol. XXX, No. 1 (1978), p. 43-54
Problem kryminogennej funkcji narkomanii (The Problem of a Criminogenic Function of Drug Abuse), Studia Kryminologiczne, Kryminalistyczne i Penitencjarne, 8/1978, pp. 103-121
Zjawisko narkomanii – próba wyjaśnienia pojęć (The Phenomenon of Drug Abuse: An Attempt to Clarify the Concepts), Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Prawo Vol. XVII, 1979, s. 173-187
The new criminology: the problem of etiology of crime (Nowa kryminologia: problem etiologii przestępczości), Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Prawo Vol. XVIII, 1979, pp. 109-122
Prison population in Poland: toward a model approach (Populacja więzienna w Polsce: w stronę podejścia modelowego), in: Scandinavian-Polish Workmeeting on the “Process of the Criminal Justice System”, Vordingborg, Danmark, May 18-21, 1981, pp. 63-90
The Capital Punishment Question in the United Nations: Recent Developments (Zagadnienie kary śmierci w Narodach Zjednoczonych), Cahiers de Defense Sociale 1983, No. 2, pp. 63-77
United Nations Position on Drug Crimes, UNAFEI Resource Material Series, No. 27 (1985), pp. 78-97
The Future of Crime: Consensus versus Conflict Perspective, in: Pedro David (Ed.), Crime and Criminal Policy, UNSDRI Publication No. 25, Franco Angelli, Rome 1985, pp. 549-565
The United Nations Crime Trends Surveys: Comparative Criminology in a Global Perspective International Annals of Criminology, Vol. 24, No. 1-2 (1986), pp. 40-56
Computerization of Criminal Justice, Eurocriminology, Vol. 2 (1988), pp. 91-99
Internationalization of Crime in Poland: Are Effective Defenses Available in Extradition Cases? (Umiędzynarodowienie przestępczości w Polsce: czy istnieje skuteczna obrona w sprawach o ekstradycję?), with Jolanta Redo, International Legal Practitioner, June 1993, pp. 15-27
Making the Debtor Pay: Financial Liability and Claims in the Polish Law, with Jolanta Redo, International Business Lawyer, December 1993, Vol. 21, No 11, pp. 520-524
Prevention and control of computer related crime from the United Nations perspective, in : Prawne aspekty nadużyć z wykorzystaniem nowoczesnych technologii przetwarzania informacji. (Legal Aspects of Computer-related Abuse, Materiały Konferencji Naukowej, Poznań-Poland 20-22 kwietnia/April 1994, Towarzystwo Naukowe Organizacji i Kierownictwa „Dom Organizatora”, Toruń 1994, pp. 71-88
The Conduct of Law Eforcement Officials: United Nations Standards and Norms, in: Jan Skupiński, Jolanta Jakubowska-Tiara (Eds), Standardy praw człowieka a polskie prawo karne (Human Rights Standards and Polish Criminal Law), Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 1995, pp. 287-301
Defendants, Defenders and the Right to Defence in UN Law and Practice with Jolanta Redo and Eduardo Vetere, International Legal Practitioner, Vol. 20 No. 2/1995, pp. 56-61
United Nations Criminal Justice Norms and Standards and Customary International Law, Toruński Rocznik Praw Człowieka i Pokoju 1994-1995, Vol. 3, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 1996, s. 23-46
Las propuestas de la ONU para compensar a las victimas de un delito (UN Proposals regarding Compensation for the Victims of Crime), Revista Mexicana de Procuracion de Justicia (Junio 1997), pp. 63-78
A Thin Blue Line: Bringing Alleged Offenders to Justice in the United Nations Law and Practice of Prosecution, in: Emil W. Pływaczewski (Ed.), Current Problems of the Penal Law and Criminal Law, Temida 2, Białystok 1998, pp. 363-395
Crime as the Growing International Security Threat: The United Nations and Effective Countermeasures against Transnational Economic and Computer Crime, UNAFEI Resource Material Series No. 55 (2000), pp. 117-138
Uzbekistan i Narody Zjednoczone w walce z międzynarodową przestępczością zorganizowaną (Uzbekistan and the United Nations in the Fight against Organized Crime), in: Tadeusz Bodio (Ed.)Uzbekistan: Historia-Społeczeństwo-Polityka. Współczesna Azja Centralna, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2001, pp. 468-478
Tadżykistan i Narody Zjednoczone w walce z przestępczością zorganizowaną (w:) Tadeusz Bodio (red.)Tadjikistan and the United Nations in the Fight with Organized Crime. Historia-Społeczeństwo-Polityka (History-Society-Politics). Współczesna Azja Centralna (Contemporary Central Asia), Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2002, pp. 591-607
New United Nations provisions against economic crime, in: Przestępczość gospodarcza z perspektywy Polski i Unii Europejskiej (Economic Crime from the Perspective of Poland and the European Union), Andrzej Adamski (Ed.), Wydawnictwo „Dom Organizatora”, Toruń 2003, pp. 33-53
Impacto de los principios de las Naciones Unidas en la reforma penal, in: Congreso Internacional Las Ciencias Penales en el Siglo XXI, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales, México 2004, s. 469-490
Kirgistan i Narody Zjednoczone w walce z przestępczością zorganizowaną (Kyrgyzstan and the United Nations in the Fight with Organized Crime), in: Tadeusz Bodio (Ed.) Kirgistan. Historia-Społeczeństwo-Polityka (Kyrgyzstan. History-Society-Politics). Współczesna Azja Centralna (Contemporary Central Asia), Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2004, pp. 823-836
Turkmenistan a zwalczanie przestępczości zorganizowanej (Turkmenistan and the Fight against Organized Crime), in: Tadeusz Bodio (Ed.) Turkmenistan. History-Society-Politics). Współczesna Azja Centralna (Contemporary Central Asia), Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2005, pp. 745-757
United Nations Standards and Norms in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Standardy i normy Narodów Zjednoczonych w zakresie zapobiegania przestępczości i administracji wymiaru sprawiedliwości), in: Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power. Festschrift in honour of Irene Melup, Bangkok, 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, April 2005, pp. 184-196
Natural Disasters and Crime Prevention: What are we Waiting for, in: Current Issues in International Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, (Jay Albanese (Ed.), in: Papers from the Ancillary Meetings held within the framework of the United Nations Eleventh Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Bangkok, 18-25 April 2005, International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), Milan 2006, pp. 273-282
The United Nations and Criminology, in: Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang and Rosemary Barbaret (Eds), Routledge Handbook of International Criminology, Routledge, London and New York 2011, pp. 125-133
United Nations Rule of Law, Common Language of Justice and the Post 2015 Educational Agenda: Some Academic and Policy Aspects, Criminal Law Review Vol. 16 (2013), pp. 211-236
The United Nations’ Role in Crime Prevention and Control, with Michael Platzer, in: Philip Reichel and Jay Albanese (Eds), Transnational Crime and Justice, Second Edition, Sage, Los Angeles 2014, pp. 283-302
The United Nations Criminal Justice System in the Suppression of Transnational Crime, in: Neil Boister and Robert J. Currie (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law, Routledge, London and New York 2015, pp. 57-72
The 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda and Academic Criminology, International Annals of Criminology Vol. 55 (2017), pp. 132–146
On Education in the Global Culture of Lawfulness, Bialystok Legal Studies Vol. 3 No. 3 (2018), pp. 27-42
A Socratic Contribution to Culture of Lawfulness for Teaching Criminology (with E. W. Pływaczewski, Agnieszka Langowska, and Przemysław Alkowski), Bialystok Legal Studies Vol. 3 No. 3 (2018), pp. 97-111
Commentary on the Judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of 29 November 2017 (Case No. IT-04-74-T), Bialystok Legal Studies Vol. 3 No. 3 (2018), pp. 113-119
The Transformative Power of the United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and Crime Prevention Education for a New Culture of Lawfulness, in: Crime Prevention. International Perspectives, Issues, and Trends (John A. Winterdyk, (Ed.), Taylor & Francis, London-New York 2017, pp. 1-32
New Instruments and Approaches for Countering Social Exclusion: A Criminological Contribution to the United Nations Post-2015 Educational Agenda, in: Emil W. Pływaczewski and Ewa M. Guzik-Makaruk (Eds), Current Problems of the Penal Law and Criminology, C. H. Beck, Warszawa 2017, pp. 723-737
For more United Nations rule-of-law “win-win” technical assistance outcomes amid migration, Studia Jiridica Toruniensa Vol. XXXIX (2021), pp. 315-349
Is Socrates Mortal? On the Impact of Socratic Logic on Teaching and Learning the United Nations Crime Prevention Law, in: H. Kury and S. Redo (Eds) Crime Prevention and Justice in 2030. The UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Springer, Switzerland 2021, pp. 623-636
For the Rule of Law: Action-Oriented Comments on the ‘Shocking’ Judgement in the Case N.D. and N.T v. Spain, in: O Wolność i Prawo. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Andrzejowi Rzeplińskiemu,, in: Barbara Błońska, Łukasz Chojniak, Beata Gruszczyńska, Andryi Kosyło, Katarzyna Witkowska-Rozpara, Dagmara Woźniakowska-Fajs (Eds), Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2022, pp. 309-322
Vom Gleichnis des barmherzigen Samariters zur Goldenen Regel der humanitären Hilfe. Die Agenda der Vereinten Nationen für die nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele 2030 und die Kultur der Rechtmäßigkeit, in: Alexander Balthasar, Paul Ertl, Günther Fleck, Marcin Lech (Eds), Internationale Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert. Recht – Politik- Gesellschaft, Jan Sramek Verlag KG, Wien 2022, pp. 313-322
Criminological Reflections on the European House Rules and Freedom From Fear in the Age of Migration, in: Ewa M. Guzik-Makaruk, Katarzyna Laskowska, and Wojciech Filipkowski (Eds), Current Problems of the Penal Law and Criminology, Prokuratura Krajowa, Warszawa 2023, pp. 393-402
How to Reduce Migration from Africa by 2050 through the United Nations Rule of Law, in: Hominum Causa Omne IuS Constitutum Sit. Księga jubileuszowa Profesora Piotra Hofmańskiego, Paweł Czarnecki, Sonia Glogowska, Adam Górski, Andrzej Sakowicz, and Andrzej Światłowski (Eds), Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2024, pp. 905-913.
UN projects (1981-2011) Management of the 5 periodical United Nations surveys of crime trends and the operations of criminal justice systems/UN-CTS (1981-1999), including data analyses and report-drafting; firearms regulation; computerization of criminal justice administration; assessment of organized crime in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan); strengthening of criminal justice systems in Central Asia to fight organized crime; international judicial cooperation (mutual legal assistance) in Central Asia; crime prevention cooperation between developing countries (South-South); urban crime prevention; crime prevention civilian private policing; virtual forum against cybercrime; United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice standards and norms; servicing the Sixth-Ninth (1980-1995), and Eleventh-Twelfth (2005-2010) United Nations congresses on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
Academic and other criminological outputs (1981-2024) online crime prevention and criminal justice education, including three global crime prevention webinars (http://www.unodc.org/e-lectures/); intercultural training skills in justice and security sector reform worldwide; course/seminar on “The United Nations and Crime Prevention”, seminar on “The United Nations and Criminal Law”; lectures, presentations and talks on the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda in the context of civic education and crime prevention.
Guest lecturer/speaker (1981-2024): the European Forum Alpbach (Alpbach, Austria); United Nations Far East and Asia Institute on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Tokyo, Japan); Raoul Wallenberg Institute, University of Lund (Sweden); Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm, Sweden); University of Pretoria (South Africa); John F. Kennedy University (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Makarere University (Kampala, Uganda); University of Tashkent (Uzbekistan); University of Helsinki (Finland); University of Białystok (Białystok, Poland), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China), Zhejiang Gongshang University (Hangzhou, China); Beijing Normal University (Beijing, China); Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China), Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia); The thirteenth and fourteenth United Nations congresses on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Doha, Qatar; Kyoto, Japan), other venues, academic conferences, universities and institutes. ***
[1] About 90 publications on various crime and justice issues, mostly covered by United Nations law and practice, including cross-national crime trends, crime prevention, computerization of criminal justice, cyberspace crime, extradition, policing, principles of prosecution, judicial independence, victim compensation, death penalty, organized crime, and international and intercultural criminal justice education.