Sara Valle

Sara Valle is a Ph.D. candidate of the XL cycle of the International Ph.D. in Criminology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Transcrime. In October 2024 she received a master’s degree in Statistical and Economic Sciences (curriculum Statistics and Data Science), at the University of Milano – Bicocca. Her master’s thesis focused on spatiotemporal analysis and crime risk prediction using machine learning models. In July 2022 she graduated in Statistical and Economic Sciences from the same university. She has previously collaborated on projects at Transcrime. In 2021 she did an internship at Polis Lombardia as a data analyst involved in carrying out quantitative analysis concerning anti – usury policies. Her internship work contributed to her undergraduate thesis and resulted in a report presented to the Special Antimafia, Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Legality Commission of the Lombardy Region. In 2024 she conducted an economic and statistical analysis of criminal infiltration into legal enterprises as a research fellow at the Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods, and Business Strategies (DEMS) at the University of Milano – Bicocca. Her research interests include organized and financial crime, criminal networks, spatial crime analysis and the development of statistical models to forecast criminal infiltration into the legal economy.