The project consists in a report on behalf of the Libe committee of the European Parliament on Organised property crime. Its aim is to analyse the national and supranational policies implemented to tackle it, and to give recommendations based on best practices.

The project intends to develop a series of coordinated actions to review and test a statistical methodology to measure Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and to support the national statistical offices of selected pilot countries in Latin America – to implement it.

The project intends to develop a series of coordinated actions to review and test a statistical methodology to measure Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and to support the national statistical offices of selected pilot countries in Latin America – to implement it.

This research provides a review and analysis of the mechanisms that OCGs is using or is likely to use in the near feature to infiltrate the legal economy and strengthen their governance activities following  the COVID-19 crisis. To do so, the research brief (a) discusses cases and evidence collected globally on how OCGs have already exploited opportunities presented by the current COVID-19 pandemic, and (b) examines case studies pertaining to previous crises and emergency situations to learn how OCGs may infiltrate the legal economy.

The objective of the project is to provide simplified and unified access to Business Registry (BR) data on business
ownership and control structures for financial analysis and investigation purposes thus increasing the level of
transparency on legal entities available today.

The project aims to design EU policies that could improve operational action of Law-Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in the area of firearms trafficking investigations.

Official website: http://www.transcrime.it/ecofit/

Official website: https://www.pmi-impact.com/updates/secondfundinground

The project aims at advancing the knowledge on crime displacement and convergence of human smuggling and drug trafficking in North Africa and aims at designing effective policies to contrast these crimes

Discovering criminal networks and identifying their members is one of the primary aspects of LEAs’ mission. ROXANNE will
contribute towards this goal by bridging the strengths of speech and language technologies (SLTs), visual analysis (VA) and
network analysis (NA).

Official website: https://roxanne-euproject.org/

The project aims at assessing corruption risk factors in firms’ ownership structure in the European single market.

Official website: http://www.transcrime.it/datacros/

Cyber-TNOC will explore how technological changes are enabling Transnational Organised Crime (TNOC). In particular, it will investigate how technological innovations (e.g. Dark Web Markets, cryptocurrencies, malware propagation, etc.) are changing the scope and size of some traditional TNOC activities.

Il progetto di ricerca ha lo scopo di indagare quali sono i fattori che influenzano la percezione di insicurezza dei cittadini per suggerire degli interventi volti a diminuire la paura della criminalità nei diversi quartieri della città di Milano. Il progetto si suddivide in quattro attività principali: i) mappatura della letteratura nazionale ed internazionale; ii) analisi dell’insicurezza e delle sue cause nel Comune di Milano; iii) approfondimenti territoriali e iii) identificazione di interventi mirati.

Il progetto ha l’obiettivo di presentare una proposta metodologica per la costruzione di una serie di indicatori statistici del rischio corruzione adatti ad essere utilizzati dalle amministrazioni regionali per la redazione dei Piani Triennali di Prevenzione della Corruzione e della Trasparenza (PTPC).

The project intends to develop a series of coordinated actions to review and test a statistical methodology to measure Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and to support the national statistical offices of selected countries in Latin America – Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru – to implement it.

Website: https://www.pmi-impact.com/updates/firstfundinground

The projects identifies and quantifies the illicit flows of cigarettes moving to EU countries across North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and highlights the existing connections with the political, legislative and socio-economic frameworks.

Project aimed at enhancing and updating knowledge of the phenomenon of radicalisation in prison and probation (PP), to provide professionals with skills to interpret and promptly identify signs of violent radicalisation.

Official website: http://www.traintraining.org/

The Project tests and tries to find support for the hypothesis that e-cigarettes could serve as a “safety-valve” allowing for higher taxes (and stricter regulations) on traditional tobacco products without encouraging the illicit market. It also seeks to investigate the effects of law and policy on the extent of the substitution of traditional tobacco products with e-cigarettes.

Project aimed to extend and further develop the initial pilot of the EBOCS, to The extended pilot enabled the participating users to immediately analyse at an operational level the information in the participating business registers.

BlockWaste aims to provide strategic analysis of the threats and risks related to illicit trafficking of waste (IWT) across Europe in order to improve the prevention capabilities of EU public and private agencies.

Official website: www.blockwaste.eu

Study on the risk of serious and organised crime (SOC) infiltration in the legitimate businesses across EU MS, through analysis of case studies and assessment of selected risk factors.

Official website: http://www.transcrime.it/more/

Official website: https://www.projectproton.eu/

The projects aims at improving existing knowledge on the processes of recruitment to organised crime and terrorist networks through an innovative integration between social and computational sciences.

The study aims to support OSCE in understanding organized crime groups in Serbia (OCGs). By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach (criminological, economic, legal), the project provides an in-depth analysis and a set of recommendations allowing OSCE to support the Serbian Government in strengthening the national action against Serbian OCGs.

The project aims at analysing key hubs around the world to identify the factors behind the illicit trade in tobacco products and point out specific measures for the reduction of criminal opportunities. The study includes the delivery of two country reports – Belarus and Bulgaria.

Recipe project analyses dual markets for regulated substances and services, and aims to provide a framework for their effective regulation. The results of the project are presented in the form of a peer-reviewed book.

Study about the availability of data on public spending in the area of public procurement and development of monitoring procedures strengthening accountability and transparency of public administrations.

Official website: http://digiwhist.eu/

Project FIRE analyses the illicit trafficking in firearms (ITF) in the 28 European Member States and provides best practices and recommendations to reduce and prevent the crime.

Official website: www.fireproject.eu

Study on assessing the risk of money laundering (ML). In particular, development of composite indicator of money laundering risk at geographic area and business sector level.

Official website: www.transcrime.it/iarm/

The project aims to develop and test a more reliable tool for measuring the extent of extortion racketeering in vulnerable industries and social groups, to promote and transfer victim-focused, pro-active approaches for the prevention and investigation of extortion racketeering and to promote partnerships between civil society and law enforcement institutions in fighting this crime.

The project consists of a preliminary assessment for an impact evaluation of the program “Sistema Táctico de Análisis Delictual – STAD” in Chile.

The aim of this report is to analysing the economic and financial aspects of heroin trafficking along the Balkan route, from Afghanistan to the main consumer countries in Europe. The study develops a methodology to estimate the scale, the nature and the potential impacts of the illicit financial flows and associated money laundering activities generated through heroin trafficking. Moreover, it discusses the potential economic impact thereof on each state involved. The report has the goal to provide countries affected by the traffic of Afghan opiates with actionable information and policy recommendations, raising awareness on the issue and offering practical steps for the future.