SHERLOC: crime-fighting law in six databases

SHERLOC is a free knowledge portal from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime on laws and cases about organised crime and terrorism. The name expands to Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime. It was built to help countries put the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols into practice, and it hosts databases of case law, legislation, bibliography, treaties, national strategies, and a directory of the national authorities who handle international cooperation. A legislative guide to the convention is published in all six UN official languages. If you want to see how different countries actually wrote a law on, say, trafficking, the legislation database lets you compare them.

Citation: 'The UNODC SHERLOC Databases' (Praeventionstag, summarising UNODC) https://praeventionstag.de/n/?i=4847 accessed 18 October 2026.