Academic papers


2022

The determinants of group membership in organized crime in the UK: A network study


Cooperation and distrust in extra-legal networks: a research note on the experimental study of marketplace disruption


Rigorous Ethnography


2021

Exploring cybercrime disruption through laboratory experiments


Ethnographies of Organized Crime


2020

The Resilience of the Russian mafia: An Empirical Study


How Mafias Migrate: Transplantation, Functional Diversification, and Separation


Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures


Extortion and Protection, Serbian translation


2019

Comparazione e spiegazione nello studio delle mafie


Why should I trust you with my money? Credible commitments in the Informal Economy in China


2018

Organized Crime in the United Kingdom: Illegal Governance of Markets and Communities


Resurgent Triads? Democratic mobilization and organized crime in Hong Kong


2017

Offline and Local: The Hidden Face of Cybercrime


The local Dimension of Cybercrime: Report from a Trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea (Romania)


What is Organized Crime? updated version of the 2010 paper


2015

State-building, Informal Governance and Organized Crime: the case of Somali Piracy


Exploitation in Human Trafficking and Smuggling


Underground Banking and Corruption


La cooperazione nelle organizzazioni criminali: il ruolo della violenza e della parentela


2014

The protector’s choice. An application of protection theory to Somali piracy


Mafie in movimento in Emilia-Romagna: prospettive di studio e proposte di intervento


Protection and extortion


2013

Cooperation in Criminal Organizations: Kinship and Violence as Credible Commitments


Protezione ed estorsione


2012

The Structure and the Content of Criminal Connections: The Russian Mafia in Italy


Listening to the wire: criteria and techniques for the quantitative analysis of phone intercepts


2011

How Mafias Take Advantage of Globalization: The Russian Mafia in Italy


Mafia Movements: a framework for understanding the mobility of mafia groups


2010

What is organised crime?


2009


2000

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ASKED: THE RESCUE OF JEWS IN NAZI EUROPE


Pervasive corruption


1998

The Society of the vory-v-zakone, 1930s-1950s


1996

What is the Russian Mafia?


Economia di idee presso il professor Stefano Zamagni


1994

Is Sicily the future of Russia? Private protection and the rise of the Russian Mafia