Criminology

The teaching activity is set up on different levels:

• Graduate degree programs: To consolidate their study background, doctoral students will be required to pass graduate degree exams (first-year doctoral students). The courses in which the PhD student must participate will be defined at the time of admission based on the curriculum of the individual candidate. Graduate degree programmes will conclude with a final examination. In addition, PhD students will have to prepare a paper in English on a topic agreed with the course professor/s. Courses may include: 
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  • Statistics and advanced statistics
  • Criminal Law and Procedure (Italian and Comparative)
  • Criminological research methodologies
  • Criminology and Applied Criminology
• Research and methodological training: PhD students in the first and second year will attend specific courses organised specifically for the doctoral programme, which will aim to provide more in-depth knowledge. The Transcrime Center periodically organizes short seminars and training sessions, in which PhD students will take part.
• Doctoral courses: PhD students in the 1st and 2nd year will attend courses organized specifically for the doctoral programme, aimed at providing in-depth knowledge of certain topics. They may also attend courses organised in collaboration with other universities.
• Università Cattolica Doctoral Education: Università Cattolica provides a rich program of cross-cutting courses for all doctoral students, including methodology training, bibliography, writing, presentation, public speaking, and academic English.
• Literature review: first-year PhD students, under the guidance of senior researchers, will carry out literature reviews on specific topics related to the research area of the individual candidate.
• Lectures held by visiting professors: PhD students will participate in intensive lectures held by visiting professors from national and international universities. The lessons will cover innovative topics in the field of criminology and criminal justice.

Some of the seminars held by visiting professors to doctoral students of the last cycles:

• AI in academia: a practical toolkit for researchers - Prof. Linda Lombi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
• Economics of organized crime - Prof. Paolo Buonanno, University of Bergamo
• Emergence of Swedish Gangs - Prof. Manne Gerell, Malmö University
• Firearms and firearms-control policies - Prof. Philip Cook, Stanford School of Public Policy
• Green criminology - Prof. Toine Spapens, Tilburg University
• Innovative sources of data in criminology - Dr. Reka Solymosi, University of Manchester
• Life course criminology - Prof. Arijan Blokland, NSCR
• Mafias abroad / Human Smuggling - Dr. Paolo Campana, University of Cambridge
• Money-laundering, Drug policy and Organized Crime - Prof. Peter Reuter, University of Maryland
• 'Ndrangheta outside Italy - Prof. Anna Sergi, University of Essex
• Network adaptation - Dr. Giulia Berlusconi, University of Surrey
• Organised crime and qualitative methodologies - Prof. Dina Siegel, Utrecht University
• Problem Oriented Policing: origins, development, evidence - Prof. Aiden Sidebottom, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
• Risk Terrain Modeling - Prof. Leslie Kennedy, Rutgers University - Newark
• The datafication revolution in criminal justice - Prof. Anita Lavorgna, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
• Wildlife crime, wildlife law enforcement, and wildlife crime/harm prevention - Prof. William Moreto, University of Central Florida

For more information consult the official Brochure.