CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT INFORMATION EDUCATION. Anita Lavorgna

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT INFORMATION Name Nationality Anita Lavorgna Italian Date of birth 27 November, Mailing address Doctoral School of International Studies Via T. Gar 14, I Trento, Italy EDUCATION September 2010 current (Thesis submitted) January 2013 February 2013 September 2012 November 2012 February 2012 May 2012 October 2007 March 2010 February 2008 June 2008 PhD candidate at the School of International Studies (research area: criminology), University of Trento, Italy. Thesis entitled: Transit crimes in the Internet age: how new online criminal opportunities affect the organization of offline transit crimes. This study relies on script analysis to understand what kind of criminal opportunities the Internet offers for conducting transit crimes and how these opportunities affect the organization of traditional transit crimes, as concerns both the carrying out of the criminal activity and the patterns of relations in and among criminal networks. PhD supervisor: Prof. Andrea Di Nicola Visiting scholar at VU University, Amsterdam. Advisor: Prof. Edward Kleemans Visiting scholar at the Department of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Advisor: Prof. Ronald Clarke Visiting research student at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, University College London. Advisor: Prof. Nick Tilley Laurea Specialistica in Giurisprudenza (equivalent to an LLM), 110 /110 cum laude, University of Trento. Final thesis in criminology entitled Valutazione delle Politiche di Prevenzione e Contrasto della Tratta di Persone e Tutela delle Vittime in Italia ( Evaluation of Policies to Prevent and Combat Trafficking in Human Beings and Victim Protection in Italy ). The main aim of this research was to build a model to evaluate national policies to counter human trafficking in order to clarify the existing relationships between the effects of such policies and the intentions of competent policy makers. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Andrea Di Nicola Erasmus student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 1

2 October 2004 October 2007 Laurea in Scienze Giuridiche Europee e Transnazionali (equivalent to a BA in European and Transnational Jurisprudence), 104/110, University of Trento. Final thesis entitled Diritto Europeo dei Contratti: Necessità Economiche e Vocazione Sociale ("European Contract Law: between Economic Necessities and Social Justice"). Thesis supervisor: Dr. Elena Ioriatti WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE January 2014 June 2014 March 2011 current July 2010 August 2010 April 2010 July 2010 April 2009 September 2009 Full-time intern at Europol, assisting the Serious and Organized Crime Strategic Analysis Team in the project Open Sources Collection & Analysis Member of ecrime, the Research Group on ecriminology of the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Trento. I am currently involved in the research project COM. Developing expertise against the online trade of fake medicines by producing and disseminating knowledge, counterstrategies and tools across the EU Research assistant at Transcrime Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime, Milan, where I was involved in the research project Unaccompanied Foreign Children, funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento. Specifically, I transcribed interviews with unaccompanied foreign children Volunteer helping recently arrived foreign children to study ( Amico Esperto Project, Comprensivo Statale G. Galilei, Padova) Research assistant at Transcrime Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime, Milan, where I was involved in the research project Expertise and skills service for monitoring, collection of data, research, development and implementation of an electronic system to support the starting up of the Observatory on Human Trafficking, funded by the Prime Minister's Office and the Department of Equal Opportunities. My main duties were to monitor the press, gather relevant information, and organize it Part-time work in several administrative units of the University of Trento and for the Opera Universitaria (150 hours per academic year) GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2014 HEUNI Scholarship Three-year competitive Doctoral Scholarship awarded by the University of Trento 2011 ECPR Travel and Accommodation Grant 2

3 OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Since December 2012 January 2014 August 2011 July 2011 May 2008 Cultore della Materia (expert in the field, meaning that I am allowed to teach and do exams) in Criminology and Applied Criminology, University of Trento Process Management Training. Quality and Process Management function (QPM), Europol Training 6th ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques (Course: Methodologies of Case Studies), Lubljiana 3rd ECPR SGOC Summer School Organized Crime and New Security Threats, Ohrid (Macedonia) Leuven Negotiation Workshop 2008 with Prof. A. Verbeke, jointly sponsored by K. U. Leuven and the University of Harvard PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES Lavorgna A. Wildlife trafficking in the Internet age: The changing structure of criminal opportunities. Crime Science, 2014 (editorially accepted) Lavorgna A. and Sergi A. Types of organized crime in Italy. The multifaceted spectrum of Italian criminal associations and their different attitudes in the financial crisis an in the use of Internet technologies. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 2013 (online first) Lavorgna A., Lombardo R., and Sergi A. Organized Crime in Three Regions: Comparing the Veneto, Liverpool, and Chicago. Trends in Organized Crime 16 (3), 2013 Sergi A. and Lavorgna A. Trade secrets: Italian mafia expands its illicit business. Jane's Intelligence Review, September 2012 Lavorgna A. Capital Crime: Gang violence returns to Rome. Jane's Intelligence Review, April 2012 Lavorgna A. Family Planning: The Calabrian mafia spreads northwards in Italy. Jane's Intelligence Review, January 2012 Lavorgna A. Il diritto europeo dei contratti tra necessità economiche e vocazione sociale: il Manifesto sulla giustizia sociale nel diritto europeo dei contratti. Jet/Det Journal of European and Transnational Law 2, European Law Students' Association, 2008 BOOK CHAPTERS Lavorgna A. Script analysis of complex criminal activities: investigating the use of the Internet as a facilitator for offline transit crimes. SAGE Research Methods Cases. Sage Publications. Forthcoming May

4 Lavorgna A. and Sergi A. Different manifestations of organised crime and corruption in Italy: a socio-legal analysis. In van Duyne et al. eds., Shady Business and Governance in Europe. Cross-border sleaze and crisis. Selected papers from the 14 th Cross-border Crime Colloquium. Forthcoming May 2014 BOOK REVIEWS Book review of P. Saitta, J. Shapland, and A. Verhage (eds.), Getting by or getting rich? The formal, informal and criminal economy in a globalized world (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2013). In Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu (Forthcoming) Book review of S. Hepburn and R.J. Simon, Human trafficking around the world: Hidden in plain sight (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). In Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January 2014 Book review of S. F. Everton, Disrupting Dark Networks (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). In Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, July 2013 Book review of G. Kerschischnig, Cyberthreats and International Law (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2012). In Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, May 2013 Book review of I. Awan and B. Blakemore (eds.), Policing Cyber Hate, Cyber Threats and Cyber Terrorism (Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2012). In Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, November 2012 Book review of S. Bonjour, A. Rea and D. Jacobs (eds.), The Others in Europe (Brussels: Éditions de Université de Bruxelles, 2011). In Journal of Common Market Studies 50 (2), 2012 Book review of S. Chesterman, One Nation Under Surveillance. A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). In Millennium - Journal of International Studies 40(1), 2011 OTHER Co-editor of The European Review of Organised Crime ( theeuropean-review-of-organised-crime), a new editorial project born under the aegis of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime (to be launched in early 2014) Preliminary outputs of the European project (currently for internal distribution only), and in particular The online trade in counterfeit medicines: an overview (with Gabriele Baratto) and Guidelines for the experts (guidelines that define the role and the tasks of the appointed national experts, with Elisa Martini) Contributor to the blog Standing Group on Organized Crime, ( Guest editor for Interdisciplinary Political Studies, special issue on Transnational Crime: essays on global manifestations of contemporary delinquency, March

5 PRESENTATIONS Drug trafficking via the Internet: the changing structure of criminal opportunities. International Conference on Synthetic Drugs (SYNDEC 6) and its workshops, November 2013 Scripting OC in the esociety: identifying a new structure of online criminal opportunities for offline transit crimes. 7 Th ECPR General Conference, Science Po, Bordeaux, 4-7 September 2013 Organised crime goes online: realities and challenges. 31 St Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 3 September 2013 Wildlife trafficking in the Internet age: the changing structure of criminal opportunities. The International Symposium on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, Temple University, Philadelphia, June 2013 (poster presentation) Criminological models of organised crime in Italy: the multi-faceted spectrum of Italian criminal associations. 14 Th Cross-border Crime Colloquium, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, May 2013 Typologies of organised crime in Italy. Criminology Department, VU University Amsterdam, 7 February 2013 Organized crime in the Internet age: researching a new system of criminal opportunities. American University of Rome, Conference Transnational Organized Crime: Italian Connections, November 2012 (e)business is (e)business: researching how transnational organized crime reacts and adapts to esociety. 12 Th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Bilbao, Spain, September 2012 Organized crime in the Internet age: the potential role of environmental criminology. 12 Th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Bilbao, Spain, September 2012 Transnational Organized Crime in the Internet Age: new environment, enduring problems. Crime Science Seminar, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, London, 26 April 2012 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Guest lecturer at Loyola University, John Felice Rome Center. Course on Organized Crime & the Mafia, 14 th June

6 COMPUTER SKILLS SIENA (Secure Information Exchange Network Application) and DMS (Document Management System) training, Europol Training, January Talisman Summer School: Computer Programming for Social Scientists, School of Geography, University of Leeds, July 2013 Course Introduction to SPSS, University of Trento, May 2013 Course Social Network Analysis in the online environment on the use of NodeXL, University of Trento, April and May 2013 Course Qualitative Data Analysis using ATLAS.ti, University of Trento, April and May 2013 Course Using Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (Nvivo), Birkbeck College, London, 3 rd March 2012 ECDL (European Computer Driving License) LANGUAGES Italian Mother tongue English Proficient user (C1; ibt-toefl: 104/120) French Basic user (A2) Spanish Basic user (A1) MEMBERSHIP Member of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime (since 2011; since 2013 I am in the steering committee) Member of the European Society of Criminology (since 2011) Member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (since 2012) 6