Papers by Michele Riccardi
Trends in Organized Crime
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for organized criminal groups and confronted ... more The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for organized criminal groups and confronted them with new challenges. Analysis of how these groups have reacted to the pandemic yields better understanding of how they work and enables the devising of more effective counter-strategies. To this end, we identified illustrative cases regarding the provision of illegal governance and infiltration of the legal economy by conducting a systematic content analysis of international media articles and institutional reports published during the first eight months after the outbreak of the pandemic (January to August 2020). These cases were further analyzed in order to cluster the behavior of criminal groups in response to the COVID-19 emergency, and the means by which they tried to exploit the pandemic to strengthen their political and economic power. We found that different governance-type criminal groups proposed themselves as institutions able to mitigate the burdens imposed by the pandem...
The final Report of Project IARM – Identifying and Assessing the Risk of Money Laundering in Euro... more The final Report of Project IARM – Identifying and Assessing the Risk of Money Laundering in Europe. Project IARM has developed a composite indicator of money laundering risk at geographic area level and at business sector level.
Books by Michele Riccardi
The infiltration of organised crime in the legitimate economy has emerged as a transnational phen... more The infiltration of organised crime in the legitimate economy has emerged as a transnational phenomenon. This book constitutes an unprecedented study of the involvement of criminal groups in the legitimate economy and their infiltration in legal businesses, and is the first to bridge the research gap between money laundering and organised crime. It analyses the main drivers of this process, explaining why, how and where infiltration happens.
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Papers by Michele Riccardi
Books by Michele Riccardi