All publications
Waste crime investigation phases and the role of emerging technologies
EMERITUS Research in Brief - A Crime&tech project
Criminal infiltration in the economy
This volume collects the proceedings of the conference “The Dynamics of Criminal Infiltration into the Economy: Risks and Remedies” (March 21, 2024, Milan – more information available here), organised by Transcrime – Joint Research Centre on Innovation and Crime of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore –…
High-level Corruption: an Analysis of Schemes, Costs and Policy Recommendations
FALCON Project Policy Brief
Online radicalisation, extremism, and terrorism
Key results from the research conducted under the project ALLIES
The resilience of drug trafficking organizations: Simulating the impact of police arresting key roles
This research analyses the resistance and resilience of drug trafficking organizations against law enforcement interventions targeting specific operational roles.
Inductive and transductive link prediction for criminal network analysis
The identification of potential offenders, who are more likely to form a new group and co-offend in a crime, plays an essential role in narrowing down law enforcement investigations and improving predictive policing. Once a crime is committed, focusing on linking it to previously reported crimes…
Organized Crime Groups
A Systematic Review of Individual-Level Risk Factors Related to Recruitment…
COVID-19 and Organized Crime
Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for organized criminal groups and confronted them with new challenges. Analysis of how these groups have reacted to the pandemic yields better understanding of how…
The changes in ownership of Italian companies during the Covid-19 emergency
Research in Brief
Recruitment into Organized Crime
An Agent-Based Approach Testing the Impact of Different Policies…
