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Fraud vulnerability in online pharmaceutical markets: An experimental study of consumer characteristics influencing recognition of illicit online advertisements
The diffusion of e-commerce has increased the availability of medicines and health-related products online, creating new risks due to deception and the diffusion of illicit products. This study investigates consumers’ ability to recognise the legitimacy of online pharmaceutical advertisements and the characteristics influencing their purchasing behaviour and vulnerability to fraud.
The dark side of the ball: Crime, financial misconduct and opacity of club ownership in football. An empirical investigation of Italian calcio leagues
In recent years, the ownership transparency of football clubs has become a central concern for FIFA, UEFA and national football associations. The growing number of foreign investors, alongside concerns over multi-club ownership, conflicts of interest and collusion between clubs, sponsors and agents, has intensified calls for greater clarity on who…
Criminal infiltration in the legal economy: An empirical analysis of firms linked to organized crime
Organized crime increasingly exploits legitimate businesses to infiltrate the legal economy. While previous empirical research has mainly relied on confiscated firms and judicially identified cases, considerably less is known about firms identified through preventive administrative measures. This study investigates whether firms subject to anti-mafia injunctions differ systematically from comparable firms…
Opaque windows, hidden patterns?
A layered analysis of erotic-service traces, corporate structure and property ownership in Chinese-linked massage centres in the Province of Milan
Through the Smoke
Regulation, (Il)legality, and the Complexity of Cigarette Markets
A simulation approach to assess law enforcement intervention impact
How the efficiency/security trade-off affects drug trafficking networks' resilience to arrests
Will this ‘thing’ Ever Really Come to an End?
Reviewing US v. Aiello et al., an FBI-Lead Star-Studded La Cosa Nostra Case
Governance and trade: Mafias’ multifunctional violence in Italian drug markets
Systemic violence is a structural feature of drug economies and a key spillover of prohibitionist drug policies. Despite its centrality, the concept is often applied in ways that obscure its distinct purposes, market levels, and organizational contexts. To address this gap, the study examines violence at the intersection of mafia…
Assessing the Risk of Labour Exploitation in Legal Business Supply Chains
INVERT Research in Brief
Legal and Ethical Practical Guidance for Investigative Journalists
Under the NEXT-IJ project (Next-Level Data and Tools for Investigative Journalism)
