Crime Prevention in the 21st Century : Innovations in Crime Analysis, Detection, and Legislation

Ernesto U. Savona, is Director of TRANSCRIME, Joint Research Centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Università degli Studi di Trento and Editor-in-Chief of European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (Springer). Since 2003, he has been professor of Criminology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. From 1986 to 2002, he was professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law at the Università degli Studi di Trento. From 1971 to 1986, he was associate professor at the Faculty of Statistical Sciences at the Università “La Sapienza” in Rome. He is Past President of the European Society of Criminology (2003/2004) and Chair for the term 2011-2012 of the Global Agenda Council on Organized Crime of the World Economic Forum. Professor Savona is a member of the European Commission experts group on policy needs for data on crime and criminal justice and of the expert group on Firearms. His research interests and key publications include books and articles on organized crime, money laundering and corruption. He has developed for the 6th EU Research Framework Programme the crime-proofing approach aimed at preventing opportunities for crime inadvertently created by regulation.