The study ‘The Infiltration of Organised Crime in the Legitimate Economy of the Lazio Region’ is now online
The study “Le infiltrazioni della criminalità organizzata nell’economia del Lazio” (The Infiltration of Organised Crime in the Legitimate Economy of the Lazio Region) has been carried out by Crime&tech – spin-off of the Università Cattolica-Transcrime – for the Regional government of Lazio and in particular of its Osservatorio sulla sicurezza e la legalità.
Combining statistical analysis, qualitative analysis and interviews with experts, the study maps the presence of organised crime group in the economy of Lazio adopting both a territorial and business sector perspective. The report provides a picture of the investments of traditional mafias and local criminal groups, of the infiltration modus operandi, of the control and management strategies of legal businesses with a focus on the most vulnerable sectors and geographic areas.
Click here for the full report [Italian version]: https://bit.ly/2PgWL7F
Latest news
View all news
#TranscrimeFiles | The new architecture of labour exploitation
Global supply chains and inadequate migration policies have created new vulnerabilities for the fastest-growing, yet least-studied driver of human trafficking: labor exploitation. Its new and complex architecture exploits layered networks of seemingly legitimate firms to evade scrutiny, presenting severe challenges to traditional law enforcement. Within the EU-funded projects VANGUARD…
Transcrime agenda at the XXVI ESC Annual Conference
Frontiers of Criminology 9-12 September 2026 – Warsaw, Poland At the Eurocrim 2026 Conference, Transcrime researchers will present more than twenty recent studies in which we investigated markets’ vulnerabilities to criminal infiltration, organised crime structures and modi operandi, and risks to…
#TranscrimeFiles | A case of EU funds fraud unmasked through the Risk Visioner tool
Watch how a real EU funds fraud, engineered to withstand scrutiny, was exposed through data-driven risk assessment, network analysis and AI screening modules run end-to-end within our tool Risk Visioner – developed by Transcrime and Crime&tech within the EU-funded project DATACROS III.
EJCPR ranked 9th worldwide in the field of criminology
The European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (EJCPR) has been ranked 9th worldwide in the Criminology & Penology category of the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR), one of the leading international rankings of academic journals. This places the EJCPR in the first quartile (Q1), recognising it among the…
Inside the Corruption Maze: Data-led Strategies to Investigate Corruption
Training session under the EU co-funded project SECURE 18 June 2026 | h. 10:00 – 14:00 CEST Online, via Webex Public authorities, law enforcement agencies and journalists face a paradox: while data is more abundant than ever, information fragmentation and saturation are capitalized upon by…
Integrity & Due Diligence – 3rd DATACROS III Training
“Identifying criminal red flags in AML Due Diligence for high-risk customers and supply chains” 24 June 2026 | 9:45 – 13:00 CEST Online, via Webex Criminal organisations are becoming highly adaptive economic actors, capable of embedding themselves into legitimate markets, supply chains, financial flows and service…
