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TECHNICAL COOPERATION RESEARCHFIDUCIA research produced an innovative model of “trust-based” policy and related policy recommendations in relation to emerging forms of criminalityThe EPLO is a partner in the research project “FIDUCIA: New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy” aimed at shedding light on a number of distinctively “new European” criminal behaviors that have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of technology developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe. The project commenced in 2012 and nished three- years after in 2015. Proposing new approaches to the regulationof such behaviors, the central idea behind the FIDUCIA project is that public trust (in Latin, “ ducia”) in justice is critically importantfor social regulation, in that it leads to public acceptance of the legitimacy of institutions of justice, and thus to compliance withthe law and cooperation with legal authorities. While being highly relevant to responding to “conventional” forms of criminality, trust and legitimacy may be of special signi cance in the light of “new crimes”.Several members of the FIDUCIA consortium have developed the idea of trust in justice in the FP7 funded EURO-JUSTIS project. In EURO-JUSTIS it was argued that the absence of reliable indicators of con dence in justice could have the unintended consequenceof skewing criminal policies towards short-term objectives of crime control, at the expense of equally important long-term objectives relating to fairness, justice and normative compliance. ACTIVITY REPORT 2016 119New European Crimes & Trust-based Policy