The United Nations' strategies for national and international development have emphasized an overall upgrading of the quality of life for people throughout the world. While economic development is recognized as important in eliminating the ravages of economic deprivation, quality of life is also perceived as related to social, cultural, and political forms. Crime prevention strategies have also focused on economic, social, cultural, and political development, particularly as they influence such primary social control institutions as the family, religion, schools, and the general socioeconomic environment. United Nations crime prevention strategies have emphasized the importance of collaboration between crime prevention experts and development planners in other areas, such that insofar as possible criminogenic factors are not intensified and multiplied by development that has given little consideration to quality-of-life factors other than rapid economic development.