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CORRUPTION AND ORGANIZED CRIME:
BRIDGING CRIMINAL AND ECONOMIC POLICIES
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Agenda
Friday, June 23
09:30 Opening
Dr. Ognian Shentov, Chairman of the Center for the Study of Democracy
Session one: Making Criminal Policy and Criminal justice institutions effective
Chair: Dr. Maria Yordanova, Director of CSD Law Program
Topics:
- Proofing legislation against economic and organized crime
- Corruption and organized crime in the New Europe – needs and gaps of criminal justice systems
- Human trafficking as part of organized crime
- Tackling political corruption: a case study
- Linkages between corruption and organized crime
Panelists:
Prof. Ernesto Savona, Professor of Criminology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, Director of Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime (TRANSCRIME)
Dr. Friedrich Hauptmann, Prosecutor General of Austria (retired), Center of Legal Competence, Austria
Ambassador Murat Bilhan, Director of Foreign Policy Platform, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session one: Making Criminal Policy and Criminal Justice Institutions Effective (continued)
Panelists:
Mr. George Hardy, US Department of Justice
Mr. Mahmut Cengiz, Chief Inspector, Organized Crime Department, Turkish National Police
Mr. Assen Dyulgerov, Senior Fellow, Economic Program, CSD
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Session two: The Use of Socio-Economic Policies against Organized Crime
Chair: Mr. Ruslan Stefanov, Coordinator, Economic Program, CSD
Topics:
- Social and economic costs of organized crime to society
Organized crime and development: informal labor
- Criminal entrepreneurs and their social environment: issues of social embeddedness
- Tackling VAT fraud
Panelists:
Dr. Paul Larsson, Norwegian Police University College
Prof. Petrus C. Van Duyne, Tilburg University
Mr. Tihomir Bezlov, Senior Analyst, European Program, CSD;
Mr. Philip Gounev, Research Fellow, European Program, CSD
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Session two: The Use of Socio-Economic Policies against Organized Crime (continued)
Mr. Ger Homburg, Regioplan, The Netherlands
Ms. Kristin Höltge, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Dr. Konstantin Pashev, Senior Fellow, Economic Program, CSD
20.00 Cocktail hosted by Mr. Boyko Borissov, Mayor of Sofia – Sky Plaza Restaurant, National Palace of Culture
Saturday, June 24
09:30 Session three: Mind the Gap: Linking Criminal and Economic Policies
Chair: Mr. Boyko Todorov, Program Director, Center for the Study of Democracy
Topics:
- Measuring the cost of organized crime
- Integrated response to organized crime
- Policy research on corruption and organized crime: building bridges between scholars and practitioners
Panelists:
Prof. Vincenzo Ruggiero, Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of the Crime and Conflict Research Centre, Middlesex University, UK
Dr. Jens Andvig, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs
Brian Donald, Serious Organised Crime Agency, UK
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session three: Mind the Gap: Linking Criminal and Economic Policies (continued)
Prof. Jan van Dijk, Pieter van Vollenhoven Chair in Victimology and Human Security, University of Tilburg; Senior Fellow of UNICRI
Dr. Dina Siegel, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mr. Hugo Brady, Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform, UK
13:00 Lunch
The conference is organized with the support of the European Commission, Austrian Know How Transfer Center, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Governments of Norway, the Netherlands and the UK
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