Francesco Calderoni (August to October 2024)

Francesco Calderoni is a full professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He is the coordinator of the M.Sc. in Crime and Security Analysis (CrimeSec) and the International Doctorate in Criminology, and contributor to the CICC. He has been a researcher at Transcrime since September 2005, where he has taken part in several international research projects as coordinator. His main areas of interest are organised crime, illegal markets, corruption, criminal and preventive policies against complex organised crime, and the analysis of criminal networks.

Under the supervision of David Décary-Hétu

He will give a lecture at the launch of the ICCC's scientific season on Wednesday 9 October, entitled The presence of Italian mafias in the world: types of mafias, activities and countries: 2000-2020.

Recent publications

Complete list of publications: https://publicatt.unicatt.it/cris/rp/rp06566

Honours

• 2020 High quality publications award 2020, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Scientific area 1. Publication: Calderoni, Francesco, Domenico Brunetto, and Carlo Piccardi. 2017. “Communities in Criminal Networks: A Case Study.”Social Networks 48 (January): 116–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2016.08.003 
  
  
• 2019 High quality publications award 2019, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Scientific area Pubblicazione: Grassi, Rosanna, Francesco Calderoni, Monica Bianchi, and Anna Torriero. 2019. “Betweenness to Assess Leaders in Criminal Networks: New Evidence Using the Dual Projection Approach.” Social Networks 56 (January): 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2018.08.001. 
  
  
• 2017 High quality publications award 2017, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Scientific area Publication: Calderoni, Francesco, Giulia Berlusconi, Lorella Garofalo, Luca Giommoni, and Federica Sarno. 2016. “The Italian Mafias in the World: A Systematic Assessment of the Mobility of Criminal Groups”.European Journal of Criminology 13 (4): 413–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2014.883499