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Project MARC aims at developing a crime risk assessment mechanism to proof legislation against crime at a European Union level, the purpose being to explain and quantify the risk of unintended criminal implications/consequences produced by legislation. During the activities the mechanism has been improved and revised. This article describes these developments: it focuses on the legislative crime risk formula and shows the work in progress over a period of 16 months (June 2004–October 2005): from development of the initial methodology until the mechanism was approved by the partners at the last meeting (held in Paris on 27–28 October 2005). It reports all the changes made and the main issues addressed in finalizing the mechanism. The last section of the article presents the most recent version of the MARC formula, which expresses the legislative crime risk index as a function of three variables: the legislative quality index, the market vulnerability index and the seriousness index. It has been constructed as a flexible mechanism that can be used for a variety of applications.
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See Savona, Initial methodology for the crime proofing of new or amended legislation/regulation at EU Level, this issue.
See the Proceedings of the meeting of the Scientific Committee and Consortium Board of Project MARC, Paris, 27–28 October 2005, available at the Web site marc.unicatt.it
Proceedings of the meeting of the Scientific Committee and Consortium Board of Project MARC, Brussels, 24 September 2004, available at marc.unicatt.it
See Curtol at al., Regulation of offshore banking services and financial entity regulation, this Issue.
More specifically, Cardiff University dealt with the regulation of professionals, private and corporate security services and the insurance world (see Levi and Dorn, Regulation and corporate crime: managers and auditors, this issue and Levi and Dorn, Regulation of insurance and corporate security, integrating crime and terrorism seriousness into the analysis, this issue); Cattolica University dealt with the regulation of offshore banking services and of company law and financial entity regulation (see endnote 4); Ghent University focused on the waste disposal sector, the pharmaceuticals industry, shipping and procurement (see Vander Beken and Balcaen, Crime opportunities provided by legislation in different sectors, this issue).
A complete methodology for assessing the seriousness index is proposed by Savona et al. in the last article of this issue.
A proposal for a more effective scoring system has been made by Savona et al. in the last article of this issue.
See Curtol et al., Testing the mechanism on EU public procurement legislation, this issue.
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Savona, E.U., Martocchia, S. Developing the Crime Risk Assessment Mechanism. Eur J Crim Policy Res 12, 325–335 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-006-9027-y
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