Online Workshops
In February 2021, within the scope of Project ECOFIT, five online workshops were held with representatives of EU MSs and third countries (Norway, Switzerland and the UK), representatives of non-EU SELEC MSs, and representatives of international institutions to discuss the gaps in the use of five operational instruments related to illicit firearms trafficking (i.e. mechanisms for data collection, mechanisms for data sharing, national firearms focal points, joint criminal investigations, controlled delivery procedures), and to define policy objectives and related policy options to fill these gaps.
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DATACROS III International Conference
12 November 2026 9.30 – 17:00 EET (8.30 – 16:00 CET) Bucharest and Online Like any modern enterprise, criminal organisations have proved highly responsive to emerging opportunities: exploiting technologies such as AI and crypto to reduce costs, scale operations and launder proceeds; targeting new markets,…
Governance transition at Transcrime, marked by continuity and international growth
On Tuesday 22 September 2026, the Executive Board of Transcrime – Joint research centre on innovation and crime of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and Università di Perugia – elected Prof. Michele Riccardi as the Centre’s new Director. The outgoing Director, Prof. Ernesto U.
#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…
