The Evolution of Illicit Flows Displacement and Convergence among Transnational Crime

Ernesto U. Savona
is Director of Transcrime, Professor of Criminology at the Università Cattolica, and Editor in Chief of the 
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
. He was also nominated President of the European Society of Criminology for the years 2003/2004. Hehas been consultant to the United Nations, Council of Europe (where he was appointed one of the seven members of the Scientific and Criminological Council in 1996), the European Union, and various national governments. From 1990 to 1994, he was visiting fellow and project director at the National Institute of Justice, Research Centre of the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., where he was manager of two projects on organized crime and international money laundering. 

Rob T. Guerette
is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Steven J. Green School for International and Public Affairs at Florida International University (FIU). He has published extensively in the areas of transnational crime, program and policy evaluation, and crime pattern analysis for crime prevention. In addition to his work analyzing domestic crime patterns, his research has focused on human smuggling and kidnapping for ransom. He was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University, and a U.S. Fulbright Specialist to Iceland in 2021.

Alberto Aziani
is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and Researcher at Transcrime. His main research interests are organized crime and illicit markets. On these topics, he has conducted studies and developed projects for international organizations and funding institutions. He cooperates with the UN and the EC in research projects related to illicit drug trafficking and money laundering.