The introductory presentation covers the Council's crime-prevention role in the last five years, the supranational scale of crime, respect for legality and individual rights, the resettlement of offenders, effectiveness and structures, organized crime, the use of computers in preventive strategies, economic crime, and money laundering and the banks. Also discussed are witness protection, juvenile delinquency, international terrorism, and new crime policy trends in combating drug trafficking. Another paper examines whether or not private-sector management principles can be applied to crime policy followed by a report on how the Council has, to date, translated changes in society, criminological sciences, and criminal justice into policy guidelines. Present problems of crime policy identified are criminalization and decriminalization as permanent ongoing trends, crime prevention and shared responsibility, a modern response to deviant and delinquent behavior among minors, and the imperative of respect for human rights and its qualifications.