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Erich Marks is an educationalist and works in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice as director of the Council for Crime Prevention. He has worked for many years, especially in the field of prevention at national and international level. Erich Marks is among others managing director of the German Congress on Crime Prevention (GCOCP), secretary of the Executive Committee of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC), Vice President of the European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS) and chairman of the foundation Pro Child.

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
• 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 2005-2011):
books = bold

• Erich Marks: Crime Prevention as an ongoing Process of institutional Cooperation and Crime Policy Development; School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011
   
• Erich Marks / Karla Schmitz: An overview of the 14th German Congress on Crime Prevention 2009; in: Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 3 - Contributions from the 3rd Annual International Forum 2009, Mönchengladbach 2011, 95 - 121
   
• Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 3 - Contributions from the 3rd Annual International Forum 2009, Mönchengladbach 2011
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• Marc Coester / Erich Marks: International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 2 - Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008, Mönchengladbach 2009
   
• 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
   
• Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention - Contributions from the 1st International Forum, Mönchengladbach 2008 (ISBN 978-3-936999-47-1)
   
• Marc Coester / Erich Marks / Anja Meyer (Eds.): Qualification in Crime Prevention - Status reports from various countries, Mönchengladbach 2008 (ISBN 978-3-936999-46-4)
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• Erich Marks, Anja Meyer, Ruth Linssen (Eds.): Quality in Crime Prevention, Hannover 2005 (ISBN 3-8334-4194-1)
   
• 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