Marco Dugato

Marco Dugato graduated in Sociology (MA) at the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (2009). Since October 2009, he is researcher at Transcrime. His main areas of expertise are analysis and management of quantitative and qualitative data with an in-depth knowledge of spatial analysis techniques regarding social phenomena. He collaborated and coordinated several research project at both national and international level (Europe, Latina America). His main research fields are: crime mapping and hot spot analysis; predictive policing; crime and criminal justice statistics; urban security; spatial risk assessment; urban policies evaluation; well-being and victimization surveys; measurement of presence and investments of organized crime; maritime piracy; use of GIS and other applications for spatial analysis.

Since the academic year 2010/2011 he has been Adjunct Professor of Crime Statistics within the framework of the MA in Applied Social Sciences (curriculum Crim&Tech) at the Faculty of Sociology of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Since the academic year 2013/2014 he is Adjunct Professor of Methods and Techniques for Criminological Research within the framework of the MA in Public Policies (curriculum PoliSi) at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Since 2011, he is Transcrime delegate at the Commission of the Users of the Statistics Information (CUIS) at the ISTAT (Italian Institute of Statistics). He is currently conducting research on Project PROTON (Modelling the PRocesses leading to Organised crime and TerrOrist Networks), funded by the Horizon 2020 research programme of the European Commission, and on Project MORE (Modelling and mapping the risk of Serious and Organised Crime infiltration in legitimate businesses across European territories and sectors).

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Dugato, M., De Simoni, M. & Savona, E. U. (2014). Measuring OC in Latin America. A methodology for developing and validating scores and composite indicators at national and subnational level. Aguascalientes, Mexico: INEGI/UNODC.
Dugato, M. (2014). Analyzing Bank Robbery in Italy. In S. Caneppele & F. Calderoni (Eds.), Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention (pp. 115-125). New York: Spinger-Verlag.
Dugato, M. (2013), “Assessing the Validity of Risk Terrain Modeling in a European City: Preventing Robberies in the City of Milan”. Crime Mapping 5(1), 63-89
Savona, E.U., Dugato, M. e Garofalo, L. (2012) “A framework for the quantification of organized crime and assessment of availability a quality of relevant data in three selected countries of Latin America and the Caribbean”, UNODC-INEGI: Aguacalientes, Mexico.
Transcrime (2011), “La Criminalità nelle Aree Metropolitane – Progetto sperimentale per la costruzione e analisi degli hot spot della criminalità nel comune di Milano”: Final Report (ed. Dugato, M.).
Caneppele, S. e Dugato, M. (Ed.) (2011), “Relazione sulla sicurezza nel Trentino. La criminalità dal 1995 al 2009” (Infosicurezza7), Provincia autonoma di Trento: Trento.
Caneppele, S., Dugato, M. e Bigatto, M. (Ed.) (2011), “Profili Sicurezza” (Infosicurezza8), Provincia autonoma di Trento: Trento.
Savona, E.U. e Dugato, M. (2010), “Governance’s effect on Corruption and Viceversa”, paper ad uso interno commissionato da CENTRA Technology: Arlington, VA

IPATCH- Intelligent Piracy Avoidance using Threat Detection and Countermeasure Heuristics , funded by the European Commission, (FP7_Seventh Framework Programme)
Developing And Validating Indicators For Measuring Organized Crime In Latin America (2013 – ongoing) – Project manager
Organised Crime Portfolio (2012 – ongoing) – Senior researcher
I beni sequestrati e confiscati alle organizzazioni criminali nelle regioni dell’Obiettivo Convergenza: dalle strategie di investimento della criminalità all’impiego di fondi comunitari nei riutilizzo dei beni già destinati (2011-2013) – Senior researcher
Assessment of the challenges regarding organized crime in Latin America and proposal on how to measure and how to use statistical data to measure organized crime in the region (2011-2013) – Senior researcher
EU Business Crime Survey – Stage 2: Piloting the survey module (2011 – 2013) – Project manager
Bownet: Identifying the Beneficial Owner of legal entities in the fight against money laundering (2011-2013) – Senior researcher
La criminalità nelle aree metropolitane – progetto sperimentale per la costruzione e analisi degli hot spot della criminalità nel Comune di Milano. (2011) – Project manager
Studio “Gis for Police” all’interno del progetto Osservatorio sulla sicurezza del Trentino (2010) – Project manager
Profili territoriali di Sicurezza per le 16 Comunità di Valle della Provincia Autonoma di Trento all’interno del progetto Osservatorio sulla sicurezza del Trentino. (2010 – 2011) – Junior researcher
Profili territoriali di Sicurezza per i 14 comprensori della Provincia Autonoma di Trento all’interno del progetto Osservatorio sulla sicurezza nel Trentino. (2009) – Junior researcher

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September
2019

Ghent

PROTON FINAL CONFERENCE – Professor Savona and Professor Calderoni present the final results of the European project Proton in Ghent.

September
2019

Cambridge

THIRTY-SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ECONOMIC CRIME – Professor Savona speaks on “Transparency an effective tool in fighting crime?” at Jesus College.

July
2019

Naples

SUMMER LAW SCHOOL ON TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME (ELSA) – Prof. Savona presents a report on UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime at Università di Napoli Federico II.

July
2019

Vienna

UNODC MACRO/Expert group – Prof. Savona gives a report on “From Mexico to Balkans: framing data collection on organized crime”.

July
2019

Bruxelles

EUROPEAN COMMISSION – Prof. Savona participates in the meeting of national anti-corruption experts.

June
2019

Tallinn

12th EU EXPERIENCE SHARING PROGRAMME WORKSHOP – Professor Savona presents a paper on “Assessing the risks of infiltration of Organised Crime in the legitimate economy: tools and remedies in the procurement sector”.

June
2019

Montréal

ILLICIT NETWORKS WORKSHOP – Professor Francesco Calderoni presents the Agent Based Model of the Proton project on the recruitment of organized crime.

June
2019

Palermo

Prof. Savona and Prof. Francesco Calderoni participate in the presentation conference of the preliminary results of PROTON in Palermo.

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June
2019

Shanghai

Marco Dugato discusses about measuring transnational organised crime at international workshop on Global Justice: Some Key Issue Areas and Policy Concerns.

June
2019

Stockholm

On the occasion of Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Prof. Savona speaks of reducing opportunities for organized crime: from crime proofing (supply) to recruitment processes (demand).

8.23.2019

Last few days to apply for the XXXV cycle of International #PhD in Criminology of the @Unicatt. The deadline is 2 September. Click the following link to apply https://t.co/P1Yh0Q5Qjq. For info https://t.co/WAQHxsiPAd #criminology #phdstudent #phdlife #university #dottorato https://t.co/T6M6GLSJ9q

8.22.2019

Il corso Politiche per la sicurezza dell’@Unicatt ha permesso a molti laureati di affermarsi nel settore della #sicurezza pubblica e privata e della ricerca accademica. 06/09 ultima data per partecipare ai colloqui d’ammissione https://t.co/N38BeB4t6s Info https://t.co/7pMfGsMvGo https://t.co/bRS5jUazGC

1.27.2018

#Terrorismo: il peggio è passato? Ne parla alle ore 22.00 il Prof @ernestosavona su @Reteconomy #Sky512 #Dtt260. Qui la diretta live: https://t.co/LwXP1uQUOO

1.26.2018

#Terrorismo: Londra è ancora in pericolo? La #Brexit renderà questa città meno sicura? Tra pochi min. il Prof @ernestosavona su @Reteconomy #Sky512 #Dtt260. Qui la diretta live: https://t.co/LwXP1uQUOO https://t.co/YhXYdHOtrY