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Social Embeddedness, Multiplexity, and Criminal Collaboration Within the Sinaloa Cartel
This study examines how social embeddedness and multiplex social ties shape criminal collaboration in the Sinaloa Cartel. It investigates how different types of relationships—such as kinship, friendship, meetings, and compadre ties—influence participation in drug crimes and broader forms of collaboration.
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
Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime
This article studies legitimate businesses confiscated from mafia groups in Italy to assess whether mafia investment patterns across industries depend on the characteristics of the geographical environment in which infiltrated firms operate. We carry out a spatial regression analysis of more than 1700 firms, with special emphasis on restaurants/hotels and…
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…
