30 years of Transcrime’s pioneering research
Thirty years have passed since Professor Ernesto Savona, together with four students, founded the Transcrime research centre at the University of Trento, creating a space for the design and development of innovative solutions to the transnational development of crime.
Since then, Transcrime has grown rapidly, thanks to the multidisciplinary nature of our approach and the variety of skills and backgrounds that come together in our team: criminology, sociology, statistics, law, economics and computer science. Today, more than thirty people work at Transcrime, which has become an inter-university centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the University of Bologna and the University of Perugia.
Discover our evolution over the decades and see the many faces of those who built it in the past and those who continue to make it a centre of international excellence today.
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Third KLEPTOTRACE Training for Civil Society
“Using public sources: How civil society can expose kleptocracy and strengthen asset transparency” November 11th, 9:30 AM – 3:40 PM CET Online Training – via Webex The third session of the KLEPTOTRACE training series is designed specifically for civil society organisations, aiming to enhance their ability to…
Transcrime and Crime&tech at the XXIV ESC Annual Conference
European Society of Criminology 24th Conference: “Criminology goes East” 11-14 September 2024 – Bucharest, Romania The Eurocrim Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) represents one of the most prestigious events in the field, fostering dialogue at both European and global levels, driving innovation and collaboration…
Transcrime’s Alignment with Europe’s Security Priorities
On 18 July, ahead of her re-election as President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen presented her programme for the next five years to the European Parliament plenary. Amid increasing external and internal criminal threats to democratic values, the rule of law, and the free market, her speech…
Illicit medicines online: CAPSULE report published
Six out of Ten Illegal Online Ads for Medicines Are Not Recognised by Consumers Only half (53%) of online advertisements for medicines are correctly categorized by consumers as legitimate or illicit. This result emerged from project CAPSULE, conducted by Transcrime–Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in cooperation with the…
Juvenile delinquency in Italy: violence on the rise, but not the number of offences
The violent nature of the crimes committed by young people is on the rise and the age at which they commit their first crime is falling, but the number of cases is not increasing. This is the result of a study we carried out on the basis of data from…
RESPOND Kick-Off Meeting
On 22-24 May, the kick-off meeting of the RESPOND project took place at the Alma Mater Studiorum of the University of Bologna together with the consortium partners. RESPOND – Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies – is a five-year project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme…
