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curriculum vitae, offices, publications
Erich Marks was born in 1954 in Bielefeld, Germany. He studied Educational Theory, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Bielefeld with a scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In 1980 he graduated in Educational Theory and attained the academic title of Diplompädagoge.
Fulltime offices (since 1980):
- Founding Executive Director “Brücke Köln” (1980 – 1983)
- Executive Director of the Federal Association for Social Work, Penal Law and Crime Policy – DBH (1983 – 2001)
- Founding Executive Director of the Foundation "German Forum for Crime Prevention" – DFK (2001 – 2002
- Executive Director of the Council for Crime Prevention in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice since 2001
current voluntary and additional offices (among others):
- Founding Managing Director of the German Prevention Congress (DPT) since 1995
- Founding Executive Director of the German Foundation for the Prevention of Crime (DVS) since 1991
- member of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) since 2006
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vice president (since 2010) and member of the Executive Committee of the European Forum for Urban Safty (EFUS)
since 2005 - Founding chairman of the Foundation Pro Kind since 2006
Publications in English (selection 2005-2010):
books = bold
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Erich Marks: Current Experiences with Crime Prevention in the German and European Context; in: Federal Ministry of Justice (Ed.): Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice - XII. United Nations Congress from 12 to 19 April 2010 in Salvador (Brazil), Berlin 2010, 9-19
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Anja Meyer / Burkhard Hasenpusch / Marc Coester / Erich Marks: The Beccaria Programm: Quality through Qualification; in: Federal Ministry of Justice (Ed.): Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice - XII. United Nations Congress from 12 to 19 April 2010 in Salvador (Brazil), Berlin 2010, 65-78
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Erich Marks / Karla Schmitz: An overview of the 13th German Congress on Crime Prevention 2008; in: Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 2 - Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008, Mönchengladbach 2009,
145 - 152
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Marc Coester / Erich Marks: International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 2 - Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008, Mönchengladbach 2009
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Ruth Linssen / Erich Marks: School shootings - Considerations on prevention in a context of relative ignorance of the phenomenon; in: Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 2 - Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008, Mönchengladbach 2009, 89 - 98
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Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention - Contributions from the 1st International Forum, Mönchengladbach 2008 (ISBN 978-3-936999-47-1)
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Marc Coester / Erich Marks / Anja Meyer (Eds.): Qualification in Crime Prevention - Status reports from various countries, Mönchengladbach 2008 (ISBN 978-3-936999-46-4)
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Marc Coester, Erich Marks & Anja Meyer: The Beccaria-Center: Professional Training in Crime Prevention; in: Marc Coester / Erich Marks / Anja Meyer (Eds.): Qualification in Crime Prevention - Status reports from various countries, Hannover 2008, 7-16
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Justyna Kulach / Nigel Whiskin / Erich Marks: Cultures of Prevention - Urban Crime Prevention Policies in Europe: Towards a common Culture?, European Forum for Urban Safety - Secucities Local Policies (Politiques de prévention de la criminalité urbaine en Europe: vers une culture comme?, Forum Européen pour la Sécurité Urbaine - Séccucités Politiques Locales), Paris, 2006
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Erich Marks, Anja Meyer, Ruth Linssen (Eds.): Quality in Crime Prevention, Hannover 2005 (ISBN 3-8334-4194-1)
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Erich Marks, Anja Meyer, Ruth Linssen: The Beccaria-Project – Quality Management in Crime Prevention; in: Erich Marks, Anja Meyer, Ruth Linssen (Eds.): Quality in Crime Prevention, Hannover 2005, 9-40
- Anja Meyer, Volkhard Schindler, Jörg Bässmann, Erich Marks, Ruth Linssen: The Beccaria Standards for Ensuring Quality in Crime Prevention Projects; in: Erich Marks, Anja Meyer, Ruth Linssen (Eds.): Quality in Crime Prevention, Hannover 2005, 201-209
