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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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.

November
2019

Brussels

Prof. Savona participates in European Commission Expert Committee on policy needs and data con crime.

November
2019

Palermo

PROGETTO EDUCATIVO ANTIMAFIA – Prof. Savona talks about mafia in the age of globalisation.

November
2019

San Francisco

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY Annual Meeting 2019 – Alberto Aziani discusses about organized crime and its control over spaces, resources, and activities.

November
2019

Rome

STATI GENERALI DELLA SICUREZZA (ABI) – Marco Dugato discusses the applied research to security.

November
2019

Reggio Emilia

CONFERENZA INTERNAZIONALE SUL CONTRASTO ALLE ATTIVITÀ DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI CRIMINALI – Prof. Savona discusses the dynamics of mafia infiltration in the legal economy.

October
2019

Modena

XXXIII CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIA – Prof. Savona chairs the session ‘Rischi per la sicurezza, rischi della sicurezza’.

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October
2019

Modena

XXXIII CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIA – Martina Marchesi e Thomas Joyce present the TRAin TRAINING project: Monitoring the risk of terrorist/violent radicalisation in prison.

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October
2019

Cologne

SYMPOSIUM “MEASURES AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION” – Michele Riccardi talks about organized crime infiltration in the European economy .

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12.5.2019

How Transcrime analyses business #ownership to detect criminal #risks and how @Crimetech2015 develops metrics to measure business ownership complexity and #opacity. Watch the speech of @ricc_ardimi at 2019 #Compliance Forum https://t.co/hZ4aWA1vax @bureauvandijk #AML #london

12.3.2019

At the #LIBE hearing on ‘Towards a common #EU Strategy to fight #corruption and #organisedcrime’ Prof @ernestosavona discusses the challenges and the actions to improve the cross border #cooperation in the fight against #crime @Unicatt #EuropeanParliament #Brussels https://t.co/IRVSTHIPCn

12.3.2019

Collaborare di più e ridurre le #asimmetrie tra le #PoliticheEuropee per contrastare con maggiore efficacia la #CriminalitàOrganizzata. Questo il messaggio lanciato dal Prof @ernestosavona su @euronewsit https://t.co/yJ07bJgPuM

11.29.2019

L’inchiesta sull’omicidio di Daphne ha traformato #Malta in un caso politico e non solo. Nel 2018, con il rapporto #More, abbiamo analizzato anche i rischi di infiltrazione della #criminalitàorganizzata e #riciclaggio a Malta. Per approfondire https://t.co/GTQV4f3dB3 https://t.co/dsTmObgTU7