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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March
2020

Cardiff

DATA SCIENCE FOR POLICING, SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY – Marco Dugato discusses the main existing approaches to crime forecasting at Cardiff University.

March
2020

Brussels

THE NEED FOR AN EU PLAN TO END THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF GRAND CORRUPTION – Prof. Ernesto Savona discusses about the EU needs to rethink its overall approach to asset recovery at the event organized by Transparency International EU.

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February
2020

Brussels

EUROPEAN CRIME PREVENTION CONFERENCE (EUCPN) – Prof. Francesco Calderoni presents the final results of European project Proton.

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February
2020

Rome

TRAIN THE TRAINERS – Thomas Joyce talks about the value of radicalisation monitoring and the use of possible indicators allowing an early detection of radicalization phenomenon at the Department of Penitentiary Administration.

February
2020

L'Aia

COOPERATION BETWEEN EUROPOL, ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH EXPERTS – Prof. Savona participates in the roundtable ‘Cooperation between Europol, Academia and Research Experts’.

January
2020

Rome

TRAin TRAINING FINAL CONFERENCE – Prof. Savona discusses the European future of tools for monitoring radicalization processes in prison.

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January
2020

Nassau

EMPIRICAL AML RESEARCH CONFERENCE – Michele Riccardi discusses how to assess the risk of illicit financial flows through the analysis of cross border ownership links of European businesses.

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December
2019

Helsinki

EUCPN Board Meeting – Prof. Francesco Calderoni presents the final results of European project Proton.

December
2019

Brussels

TOWARDS A COMMON EU STRATEGY TO FIGHT CORRUPTION AND ORGANISED CRIME – Prof. Savona discusses the need to improve the cross border cooperation in the fight against organised crime and corruption at the European Parliament.

November
2019

San Francisco

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY Annual Meeting 2019 – Alberto Aziani talks about evolving crime trends, patterns, and measurements.

4.3.2020

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3.31.2020

Su @repubblica il Prof. @ernestosavona parla delle misure da adottare per #prevenire o ridurre le opportunità criminali che potrebbero nascere in vista della ripresa economica del Paese https://t.co/BVQbZW8Orp #coronavirus #Covid19 #mafia #corruzione #prevenzione @Unicatt

3.20.2020

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3.17.2020

Quale potrebbe essere l’impatto del #coronavirus sulla #criminalità? In questa intervista, il Prof. @ernestosavona riflette sulle opportunità criminali che #COVID19 potrebbe creare https://t.co/niMFKsK5uR @Unicatt #prevenzione