Stefano Caneppele

University of Lausanne | UNIL ·  Ecole des sciences criminelles (ESC)

This paper analyses the relationship between the drop in traditional crimes in Western highly industrialised societies and the evolution of cybercrime. It includes a review of the criminological debate on the crime drop, which shows that the exchanges between researchers allowed clarifying its extent and limits, but without reaching agreement about...

This volume collects new contributions to research on mafias, organized crime, money laundering, and other forms of complex crimes, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The chapters for this volume are original peices written in honor of the retirement of Dr. Ernesto U. Savona, highlighting his research and...

In recent years, the EU has supported actions to develop the green economy. Among these, incentives to sustain the growth of the wind power (WP) sector were welcomed as strategic for promoting environmental sustainability. This paper argues that the enthusiasm in supporting the green economy, without a preliminary assessment for crime opportunities...

Since the 1990s trafficking in human beings has increasingly become a priority in the international and European policy agenda. The international community took action against it with the United Nations Protocol against Trafficking (2000), the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005) and the Directive 2011/3...

In recent decades, the issue of violence against women has increasingly drawn the attention of international and national legislators and policymakers. The term “femicide” became widespread in the early 2000s and was incorporated into the criminal codes of several countries. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent social distancing me...

Crime analysis is of upcoming importance for both theory and practice in criminology. The study of offenders’ spatial behavior is an integral part of a more comprehensive understanding of the convergence in physical space between the offenders and their victims (Bernasco, 2014). The journey to crime has been defined as ‘the distances traveled by of...

Le recours croissant aux technologies numériques s’accompagne d’une augmentation du risque de délits sexuels sur Internet. Cette étude réalisée à l’intention de l’Office fédéral des assurances sociales (OFAS) montre des besoins de renforcer la connaissance et la coordination pour prévenir les cyber-délits sexuels à l’encontre des mineurs. Ce décala...

Social engineering is a method used by offenders to deceive their targets utilizing rationales of human psychology. Offenders aim to exploit information and use them for intelligence purposes or financial gains. Generating resilience against these malicious methods is still challenging. Literature shows that serious gaming learning approaches are u...

This paper analyzes the correlates of traditional (burglary, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles, and pickpocketing) and online property crime (data theft and online fraud), with particular attention given to the relation between them and the risk of multiple victimizations. Data are gathered from a large and representative victimization survey cond...

This contribution discusses the relevance of criminology and forensic sciences approaches with regard to match-fixing detection. Existing studies on match-fixing have described offenders as rational actors, oriented to maximize their benefits in a field with low-risk detection by law enforcement systems. Often, this explanation is too simplistic, a...

Research addressing the perception of security of immigrants in Switzerland dates back to the 2000s. Using data from a victimisation survey conducted in Lugano, Switzerland (N = 7885), this study investigates the security perception of immigrant communities and its correlates. In contrast to previous findings, the analyses suggest that a higher per...

Using a crime script analysis, this research aims to document how smugglers operate when they traffic arms from the US to foreign countries. Our study is based on an analysis of 66 cases that have been judged by US courts (2008-2017). The criminal activities involved are detailed in a series of distinct scenes, according to Cornish's theory. Five s...

Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and government measures to limit its spread have had a huge impact on society. Crime opportunities and criminal justice systems have also been affected by this health crisis. With the aim of international collaboration, a working group has been created to promote research among European researchers and thereby faci...

Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and government measures to limit its spread have had a huge impact on society. Crime opportunities and criminal justice systems have also been affected by this health crisis. With the aim of international collaboration, a working group within the European Society of Criminology has been created to promote research...

This contribution discusses the challenge to put research findings into practice in the field of crime prevention, namely to safeguard the integrity of public contracts. In 2008, Transcrime developed a risk-assessment model to support law enforcement against organized crime. The aim was to provide a tool for highlighting the public contracts, which...

This study tests the assumptions of the routine activity theory on three online forms of victimization: computer virus, online fraud, and unauthorized use of personal data. Data come from a representative victimization survey conducted in the Swiss city of Lugano from January 2019 to April 2019. The analysis resulted in the following conclusions. F...

In recent years, many human activities have made cyberspace their preferred environment. This study focuses on the betting environment, specifically on fixed-match informing websites (FMIWs). These sites claim to be capable of selling tips about fixed sports events. They essentially act as vendors of confidential sources, allowing punters to place...

This study sheds light on the match-fixing ecosystem, with particular focus on those entities engaged in protecting the integrity of competitions. It analyzes the characteristics of match-fixers, as perceived by some anti-match-fixing stakeholders; the known processes of match-fixing and their evolution; and the interactions among stakeholders in t...

This article-based on a national data set (N = 173)-focuses on extrafamilial sexual homicides and their spatial mobility. The study combines the location of the crime scene and the offenders and victims' residences in mobility crime triangles. The findings reveal that most of the homicides fall within the categories of offender mobility and total m...

Depuis la fin des années 90, on entend parler dans les milieux policiers et académiques d’un nouveau modèle de police, dit la police prédictive. Cette approche apparaît être plus populaire dans les pays anglo-saxons en comparaison aux pays d’Europe continentale. Ce travail tente d’identifier des raisons qui pourraient expliquer ce décalage en propo...

Les sources ouvertes en ligne sont de plus en plus utilisées comme outils de renseignement. Cette contribution explore la manière dont elles peuvent être utilisées pour étudier la déviance dans le sport professionnel et olympique. L’étude a considéré les fraudes perpétrées sur le terrain (le dopage, la manipulation de match et les fraudes à l’éligi...

This study-based on a national data set (N = 1,447)-focuses on extrafamilial sexual assaults and their mobility. Spatial information about the offender's house, the victim's house, and the crime scene was combined in mobility crime triangles. The findings reveal that most of the assaults fall in the categories of total mobility (42.78%) and offende...

Background: For several years, the link between mobility, human behavior and crime have highlighted by criminologists. Nevertheless, due to the difficulty of compiling sensitive geographical data, the spatial behavior of extrafamilial child abusers has received little empirical attention. Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore the sp...

This study—based on a national dataset (N = 2080)—focuses on extra familial sexual assaults against victims of less than 15 years old and 15 years old and more. Specifically, this research explores crime mobility and the factors associated with. Spatial information about the offender’s house, the victim’s house, and the crime scene was combined. Fo...

The study presents the fisrt results of the DACCS (Database on Alleged Cases of Corruption in Sport) promoted by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the School of Criminal Justice of the University of Lausanne

Cette recherche – basée sur une base de données nationale (N=1447) – s’intéresse à l’analyse géospatiale des agressions sexuelles de prédations. Les informations spatiales correspondent au lieu de résidences de l’agresseur et de la victime ainsi que le lieu de l’agression. Ces informations sont combinées dans le modèle dit des « triangles de mobili...

Intervention à l'evenement Raise the Bar - Le crime parfait existe-t-il ? organisé par Uthink, La Nébuleuse, Renens, le 22 mai 2018

Exploratory spatial data analysis methodologies (ESDA) have become popular and accessible in the last 20 years. Similarly to exploratory data analysis (EDA), ESDA methodologies focus on the data and to their exploration/visualisation in order to find out what patterns/models can be found to better understand data. Many disciplines (social and hard...

In this chapter, the term ‘intelligence’ is progressively integrated into the dominant conceptualizations that traditional forensic science laboratories implement in serving justice systems. Forensic intelligence thus expands the narrower scope of forensic science. The latter’s frame of reference eventually changes when its contribution to security...

Historically, criminologists studied theft from different perspectives, but only a few focused their attention on the reselling of stolen items. The advent of the Internet has boosted stolen good markets by facilitating interactions between vendors (thieves and receivers) and buyers. This study, based on 227 cases reported by news sites in 2015 and...

Historically, criminologists have studied theft from different perspectives, but only a few of them have focused their attention on the reselling of stolen items. With the ability to reach many buyers, the thieves and receivers can maximise their profit using the Internet as an environment of disposal. This study focuses on the methods used to sell...

This contribution discusses the challenge to put research findings into practice in the field of crime prevention, namely to safeguard the integrity of public contracts. In 2008, Transcrime developed a risk-assessment model to support law enforcement against organized crime (OC). The aim was to provide a tool for highlighting the public contracts,...

This chapter presents a case study on crime proofing of legislation. The case study regards the new EU Tobacco Products Directive. The study applied the crime proofing methodology to the draft version (submitted to the EU Parliament) in order to understand whether the new regulation may unintentionally have generated criminal opportunities. It reve...

Questo rapporto analizza estensivamente la regolazione, l’offerta e la domanda di gioco d’azzardo con particolare attenzione proprio al tema del gioco d’azzardo patologico. L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è stato di produrre dati e fornire indicazioni utili per tutti i soggetti che, a vario titolo, possono intervenire per la prevenzione e il trattamen...

This study calls for a new direction to be taken in the analysis of, and the fight against, the illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP) in the European Union (EU). It suggests that the focus should be trained more closely on the reduction of criminal opportunities than on crime control policies. This requires a change of mindset: from the convicti...

The report presents the results about the use of predictive mapping on burglary in three Italian cities (Milan, Rome and Bari).

Among the measures to tackle stalking, the Italian regulation provides for ammonimento, an oral warning aimed at stopping the stalker. This study aims at analysing the use of such measure three years after its introduction: it focuses on an Italian Region (Lombardy) and analyses both the ammonimentos issued by police departments from February 2009...

The book collects a series of judicial case studies of infiltration of Italian mafias into public procurement. Through a script analysis the authors identy vulnerabilities and markers of mafia groups infiltration.

Most of the studies conducted by prof. Ernesto Savona focused on organized crime. In particular, with respect to the Italian organized crime, his research interest has turned to the mechanisms of corruption and the infiltration of the mafia in public procurement. In a recent essay, Savona showed how, by applying the crime script techniques, it woul...

This volume collects new contributions to research on mafias, organized crime, money laundering, and other forms of complex crimes, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The chapters for ...

Chapter in the book Mahesh K. Nalla, Graeme R. Newman Nalla (eds), Community Policing in Indigenous Communities, CRC PressEditor: 267-274

This study concerns the crime proofing of the Proposal for the Revision of the Tobacco Products Directive presented in December 2012, and it is an update of a study on the crime proofing of the policy options under consideration of the revision of Directive 2001/37/EC.

This article presents an exploratory study of the presence of the ‘Ndrangheta groups abroad. The study conducted an analysis over several national and international sources and it produced a map of the presence of ‘Ndrangheta groups in Europe and around the world. The attempt was to systematically collect data on the ‘Ndrangheta in order to provide...

The "war on terror" became a popular slogan in the United States after the 9/11 attacks. The reaction against "Islamist terrorism" has profoundly influenced not only American politics, both nationally and internationally, but also European policies. Since then the struggle against the terrorist threat has often been used by Western governments to p...

La transizione nell’età adulta degli ex minori stranieri non accompagnati nella Provincia di Trento

Purpose – The paper aims at expanding knowledge on the presence of organized criminal groups in public contract procurement in the south of Italy. It seeks to highlight how the capabilities of law enforcement agencies could be enhanced by means of criminological models. Design/methodology/approach – The paper sets out a criminological model with w...

Cosa significa tolleranza zero? Da dove nasce questo concetto? Come si è sviluppato? Quale politiche incorpora? E soprattutto: è efficace nel ridurre la criminalità? Ha avuto il merito di abbattere i livelli di criminalità della città più conosciuta d’America? A queste e ad altre domande si è cercato di rispondere con questo libro costruendo un tes...