Eurocrime, together with St. Kliment Ohridsky University Bitola Faculty of Security Studies, worked in these months for the organization of a workshop about topics related to the MargIn project. The title of the Workshop is the following: “Crime and Victimization Surveys: Challenges in Macedonia and MargIn Project Experience” and it will take place at the Faculty of Security, Skopje, Macedonia.
Thanks to the collaboration with Bitola University the workshop foresees the participation of important actors working and studying in this field. The Final Agenda is the following:
Wednesday – March 15, 2017
09:00 Registration
Moderator: Nikola Dujovski
9:15 – 10:00 Institutional opening speeches:
– Prof. Dr. Oliver Bacanovic, Dean of the Faculty of Security-Skopje
– Dr. Silvia Ciotti, CEO and Senior Researcher, Trainer & Consultant, EuroCrime
– Prof. Dr. Ljupco Arnaudovski
Moderator: Stojanka Mirceva
10:00 – 10:15 Prof. Dr. Rade Rajkovcevski, Dr. Silvia Ciotti
– Introduction to the workshop: contents, aims, and agenda
10:15 – 11:00 Dr. Silvia Ciotti
– General presentation of the MARGIN project: Demographic, socio-economic and socio-geographic variables influencing the perception of insecurity. The results of the MARGIN project.
Prof. Dr. Ljupco Arnaudovski
– Crime surveys and impact on society.
11.00 – 11.30 Discussion
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
Moderator: Stojanka Mirceva
12:00 – 13:00
Prof. Dr. Oliver Bacanovik, Dr. Natasha Jovanova
– History and development of crime and victimization surveys in the Republic of Macedonia.
Prof. Dr. Miodrag Labovik
– Crime and victimization surveys (CVS) in Macedonia – challenges and prospects.
Prof. Dr. Vesna Stefanovska
– Limitation to the crime surveys in the country.
13:00-13.30 Discussion
13:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Moderator: Natasha Jovanova
14:00 – 15:00
Dr. Silvia Ciotti
– The quantitative survey: the MARGIN module as a tool to assess the impact of socio-economic and socio-geographic variables on the perception of insecurity.
Representative from State statistical office
– Crime statistics in the country.
Prof. Dr. Stojanka Mirceva
– Why crime statistics matter?
15.00-15.30 Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
Moderator: Natasha Jovanova
16:00 – 17:00 Questions and debate.
Conclusions of the first day of workshop.
Thursday – March 16, 2017
Moderator: Rade Rajkovcevski
09:30 – 11:00 Dr. Silvia Ciotti
– The qualitative research: the anthropological fieldwork in MARGIN. The MARGIN results and policy roadmap: first insights of situational prevention.
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Gruevska Drakuleska
– The need for researching recidivism and its significance for explanation of crime.
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Deanoska Trendafilova
– The corporate crime ‘hidden in the fog’- on the analysis of the legal entities crime in the Republic of Macedonia.
Prof. Dr. Nikolina Kenig
– Ethics in data collection from vulnerable research participants: a feminist approach.
11:00 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30- 12:30 Lunch break and Coffee break
Moderator: Rade Rajkovcevski
12:30 – 14:00 Working Groups – proposed topics:
Crime and victimization surveys (CVS), police and criminal justice recorded crime statistics (PRC),
Fear of crime and perception of (in)security, socio-economic factors and insecurity
Urban security and crime prevention,
Assistance and victims support services.
14:00 – 14:30 Results of the working groups activity and discussion
– Draft of a “Skopje working chart” on the perception of (in)security among different demographic and victims groups.
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
Moderator: Rade Rajkovcevski
15:00 – 15:30 Dr. Silvia Ciotti
– Conclusions about the MARGIN project first results. Guidelines and proposal for policy makers.
15:30 – 16:00 Round table
– Best practices in the EU, Italy and Macedonia: strategies in decision making targeted at better facing risks and increasing the public and personal perception of security.