MARC - CORDIS

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Contents:
• The Consortium
Project MARC - Developing Mechanism for
Assessing the Risk of Crime due to legislation
• Background
and products in order to proof them against
• Goal
crime at EU level
• Objectives
• Methodology,
dissemination
strategies and
timetable
Presentation of the Project
Prepared for the Kick-Off Meeting
1st Call projects of the Sixth Framework Programme
Priority Theme 7 and relevant projects of Priority Theme 8
Brussels, 11-12 November 2004
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THE CONSORTIUM
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1.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) - Coordinator
2.
Cardiff University, Wales (United Kingdom)
• Background
3.
European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (Finland)
• Goal
4.
Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Ghent
University (Belgium)
• Objectives
5.
Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College of
London (UK)
6.
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
(Germany)
7.
Transcrime, Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime,
Università di Trento – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
(Italy)
8.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
9.
Intertek Testing Services – Research and Testing Centre (UK)
• The
The Consortium
Consortium
• Methodology,
dissemination
strategies and
timetable
10. National Council of Crime Prevention (Sweden)
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Contents:
• The Consortium
• Background
Background
• Goal
• Objectives
• Methodology,
dissemination
strategies and
timetable
BACKGROUND
EU institutions, national governments and the market
(consumers and producers) are demanding crime-proofed
legislation and products. Despite this obvious need, there
has been little research and implementation. Project MARC
seeks to satisfy this demand with the implementation of
specific crime risk assessment mechanisms to prevent and,
consequently, reduce the general amount of crime.
A legislative crime risk assessment mechanism will allow
EU and national policymakers to screen existing and draft
legislation for potential risks. By enabling the assessment of
the amount of risk they produce for the development of
economic, financial and organised crime they can be reduced
and eliminated where possible.
A product crime risk assessment mechanism will allow
manufacturers to evaluate the criminogenic capacity of the
products they produce in order to effectively reduce it.
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GOAL
• The Consortium
• Background
• Goal
Goal
• Objectives
• Methodology,
dissemination
strategies and
timetable
The goal of this Project is to produce
mechanisms and knowledge that will help
policymakers and businessmen, at
national and EU levels, to assess and
reduce the risks of organised and other
types of crime.
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OBJECTIVES
Contents:
• The Consortium
1.
to create a crime risk assessment mechanism to
proof EU legislation against
economic/financial/organised crime at a European
Union level in order to reduce the probability that an
economic/financial/organised crime occurs due to
opportunities arising from legislation, and to provide
a detailed plan of action to put it in place at an EU
level;
2.
to create a crime risk assessment mechanism to
proof electronic products against theft, thereby
reducing the probability that a theft occurs due to the
intrinsic attractiveness of products, and to provide a
detailed plan of action to put it in place in the
business environment.
• Background
• Goal
• Objectives
Objectives
• Methodology,
dissemination
strategies and
timetable
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Contents:
• The Consortium
• Background
• Goal
• Objectives
• Methodology,
Methodology,
dissemination
dissemination
strategies and
strategies and
timetable
timetable
METHODOLOGY, DISSEMINATION
STRATEGIES AND TIMETABLE
To achieve objective 1, the project will review extant literature
on legislative opportunities for crime; analyse EU economic
and organised crime case-studies (vulnerabilities studies); and
carry out a pilot study on EU public procurement legislation
(with detection of loopholes and proposals for remedial
action).
To achieve objective 2, the crime risk assessment mechanism
will be tested on a sample of electronic products and a final
mechanism will be drafted together with possible steps to
make it operational in the electronics industry.
A workshop with EU legislators and a conference on product
crime proofing will be among the dissemination strategies.
The Project started on 1 May, 2004 and will last 2 years, the
formal conclusion being 30 April, 2006.
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UNIVERSITA’ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE
20123 MILANO - Largo A. Gemelli, 1
Contents:
• The Consortium
Project MARC - Developing Mechanism for
Assessing the Risk of Crime due to legislation
• Background
and products in order to proof them against
• Goal
crime at EU level
• Objectives
• Methodology,
dissemination
strategies and
timetable
Presentation of the Project
Prepared for the Kick-Off Meeting
1st Call projects of the Sixth Framework Programme
Priority Theme 7 and relevant projects of Priority Theme 8
Brussels, 11-12 November 2004
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