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Prof. h.c. (Odessa National Maritime University) Erich Marks is an educationalist, prevention advisor and editor. He 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 founder and CEO of the German Prevention Congress.
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.
Former fulltime offices (1980-2019):
- 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 (2002-2019)
- Chief Executive Director of German Prevention Congress (2019 - )
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
- Vice President (2012-2016), member of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) (2006-2016)
- Vice President (2010-2019) and member of the Executive Committee of the European Forum for Urban Safty (EFUS)
(2005-2019) - Founding chairman of the Foundation Pro Kind (2006-2022)
- Executive Board Member of the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (2012-2020)
- Advisory Board Member "Communities That Care (CTC) European Network: Making CTC work at the European level" since 2013
- Member of the Advisory Council of the German Foundation for Crime Prevention since 2012
International awards
2001: Honorary Member for life of the European Organization for Probation - CEP
2018: Honorary Professor of Odessa National Maritime University (ONMU) UA, RU, EN
Publications in English (selection 2005-2019):
books = bold
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Erich Marks: As crises become more complex, “prevention must be at the centre of everything we do”1 – on the occasion of the opening of the 23rd German Congress on Crime Prevention in Dresden; in: Kerner, Hans-Jürgen and Marks, Erich (Ed.), Internet documentation of the German Congress on Crime Prevention. Hannover 2018, www.praeventionstag.de/dokumentation.cms/4096
- Stephan Voß/Erich Marks: Violence Prevention in Germany - Experts’ evaluation and perspectives, in: Claudia Heinzelmann/Erich Marks: International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 9 Contributions from the 10th Annual International Forum 2016 within the German Congress on Crime Prevention, Mönchengladbach 2017, 219-228
- Erich Marks: German Congress on Crime Prevention 2016 in Magdeburg – Welcome to the annual prevention surveying in troubled times, in: Claudia Heinzelmann/Erich Marks: International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 9 Contributions from the 10th Annual International Forum 2016 within the German Congress on Crime Prevention, Mönchengladbach 2017, 21-26
- Claudia Heinzelmann/Erich Marks: International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 9 Contributions from the 10th Annual International Forum 2016 within the German Congress on Crime Prevention, Mönchengladbach 2017
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Erich Marks: Let's risk more crime prevention - our task at hand, in: Claudia Heinzelmann/Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 8, Mönchengladbach 2016, 21-28
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Claudia Heinzelmann/Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 8, Mönchengladbach 2016
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Erich Marks/Karla Marks: 20 years German Congress on Crime Prevention in numbers
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Erich Marks: Prevention requires practice, policy, and science and new concen- trated and systematic initiatives; in: Marc Coester/Erich Marks (Eds.), International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 7, Mönchengladbach 2015, 99-108
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Marc Coester/Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 7, Mönchengladbach 2015
- Erich Marks: The 18th German Congress on Crime Prevention; in: Marc Coester/Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 6, Mönchengladbach 2014, 11-22
- Marc Coester/Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 6, Mönchengladbach 2014
- Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 5, 2013
- Erich Marks: “The only thing that is safe is that nothing is safe, that is why I am skeptical, to be on the safe side”; in: Marc Coester & Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 5, 2013, 9-20
- Erich Marks/Marc Coester/Frederick Groeger-Roth/Burkhard Hasenpusch/Claudia Heinzelmann/Anja Meyer & Susanne Wolter: Some experiences by the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony (CPC) concerning quality-oriented and evidence-based prevention policies; in: Marc Coester & Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 5, 2013, 91-104
- Erich Marks: Seven current issues and related suggestions for crime prevention strategies, EFUS-Conference 2012
- Marc Coester / Erich Marks (Eds.): International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 4, Mönchengladbach 2012
- Erich Marks: “The only thing that is safe is that nothing is safe, that is why I am skeptical, to be on the safe side” - Opening of the 17th German Prevention Day 2012 -
- 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
