Collaboration between Università Cattolica – Transcrime and Dipartimento Giustizia Minorile e di Comunità of the Ministry of Justice
It was recently signed the new collaboration between Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Transcrime and the Dipartimento Giustizia Minorile e di Comunità of the Ministry of Justice.
This activity stems from the need to enhance the collaboration between the two institutions for the acquisition, exchange and analysis of data, as well as the promotion of events, publications and new projects on the study of criminal and deviant cases.

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New year, new challenges, new logo. Message from the Director
Transcrime was established in 1994 as a Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime, anticipating scholars, practitioners and policy makers on this issue. Six years later, the signature of the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organised Crime consolidated the past successful experiences of combatting transnational crime and opened the way for…

Merry Christmas and happy new year
Transcrime research center and its spin-off Crime&tech wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks to all those who keep following us and to those who contribute to our research activity for crime prevention and control. Transcrime and Crime&tech staff.

2022: a great success for Transcrime and Crime&tech in leading innovative research for reducing crime
The year 2022 marks a great success for our research centre Transcrime and its spin-off Crime&tech. We were awarded more than 18 projects: 5 Horizon Europe projects; 5 DG Home – Internal Security Fund (ISF) projects; 1 DG Justice project; 7 projects funded by other institutions; And a high…

Transcrime has been awarded as coordinator project INVERT
Transcrime has been awarded as coordinator project INVERT (Identifying compaNies and Victims in the Exploitation phase to disRupt the financial business model of adult and child labour Trafficking), part of the ISF Programme funded by the European Commission. This project aims at counteracting the use of legal companies by labour…

The second Newsletter of Project MEDI-THEFT with Transcrime analysis on organized theft of medicine
It is now available the second newsletter of Project MEDI-THEFT, the EU funded project coordinate by AIFA – Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, aiming at counteracting organised theft of medicines across the EU. In this second Issue, available on the official project website (here), Marco Dugato provides a comprehensive…

Transcrime takes part in an operational action of the EMPACT platform coordinated by the Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza to counter mafia infiltration in the legal economy in Europe
The presence and the investments of Italian mafias outside national borders are now well established. Therefore, it becomes essential to increase collaboration and exchange of information between Law Enforcement Agencies to better understand, investigate, prevent and counter the expansion of these groups. In response to this need, it was decided…