Serena Favarin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serena Favarin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serena |
| FAMILY NAME | Favarin |
| SIGNATURE | FAVARIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0841-0317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Name Your Price: Exploring the Costs of Professional Money Laundering Services in Large-Scale Cases in the United States
Crime as a “Normal” Phenomenon: Revisiting Durkheim in the Context of Crime Concentrations
In a radical reimagining of crime in the 19 th century, Émile Durkheim described crime as a “normal” phenomenon which was functional and essential to the workings of healthy societies. Durkheim noted that crime performs specific functions: it reinforces collective norms, clarifies the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and fosters social cohesion in response to violations. In his view, a healthy social order would lead to relatively normal or con…
Transnational trafficking networks of end-of-life vehicles and e-waste
Based on case studies and interviews, it appears that the transnational trafficking of various waste types follows distinct paths. However, this information only provides a partial view of the global waste trafficking network, as it has never been studied by combining all the known illegal flows of different waste types. To address this gap, we analysed data from the Basel Convention National Reports to reconstruct networks of countries that enga…
Digging into waste: An analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces
This article examines the drivers of waste crime using a panel dataset at the provincial level in Italy. The results demonstrate that while waste crime is characterized by some degree of inertia, it lacks significant spatial patterns and does not respond to general modes of deterrence. With respect to income, the human capital effect prevails over the scale effect. An inefficient public sector and inadequate waste management system result in high…
Exploring the Immediate Effects of Covid-19 Containment Policies on Crime: An Empirical Analysis of the Short-Term Aftermath in Los Angeles
This work investigates whether and how COVID-19 containment policies had an immediate impact on crime trends in Los Angeles. The analysis is conducted using Bayesian structural time-series and focuses on nine crime categories and on the overall crime count, daily monitored from January 1st 2017 to March 28th 2020. We concentrate on two post-intervention time windows—from March 4th to March 16th and from March 4th to March 28th 2020—to dynamically…
Disentangling community-level changes in crime trends during the Covid-19 pandemic in Chicago
Recent studies exploiting city-level time series have shown that, around the world, several crimes declined after COVID-19 containment policies have been put in place. Using data at the community-level in Chicago, this work aims to advance our understanding on how public interventions affected criminal activities at a finer spatial scale. The analysis relies on a two-step methodology. First, it estimates the community-wise causal impact of social…
New Methods to Enhance the Study of Environmental Crimes and New Instruments to Strengthen Crime Prevention
The Global Waste Trafficking and Its Correlates
Our understanding of illicit waste trafficking (IWT) is in its embryonic stages; most notably, the transnational nature of this phenomenon has hitherto been neglected in extant empirical research. This study provides the first analysis of the possible coorrelates of transnational IWT at a global level. Through recourse to information extracted from the official Basel Convention National Reports, we constructed a network of the most relevant IWT c…
Features of transnational illicit waste trafficking and crime prevention strategies to tackle it
Despite the growing interest in illicit waste trafficking (IWT), studies that empirically address the issue are still few. Mostly, they fail to present in-depth analysis of the different stages of IWT and to suggest crime prevention strategies. This study conducts a crime script analysis of five cross-border judicial cases from Italy to other countries. This method makes it possible to shed light on the characteristics of the different stages of …
A Security Paradox. The Influence Of Governance-Type Organized Crime Over the Surrounding Criminal Environment
This study empirically demonstrates how governance-type organized crime groups (OCGs) operate as an enforcer against volume crimes in the communities they control and argues that their ability to mitigate volume crimes forms an integral component of controlling their territory in the long term. This is because the costs incurred from deterring other crimes are offset by the tangible and intangible revenues that it facilitates. Indeed, combating v…
The Risks and Rewards of Organized Crime Investments in Real Estate
Despite growing interest in organized crime’s infiltration of the legal economy, research to date has paid little attention to the investments of criminal organizations in real estate. Using data on confiscated assets in 8,092 Italian municipalities between 2000 and 2012, this paper aims to remedy this lack of knowledge. Applying a risk–reward approach, based on the rational choice perspective, the analysis highlights what drives Italian mafia gr…
Counterfeiting, illegal firearms, gambling and waste management: An exploratory estimation of four criminal markets
This article focuses on four different criminal markets: counterfeiting, illegal firearms trafficking, gambling and waste management. Despite recurrent allegations that these markets have a high mafia presence, there is a lack of reliable estimates of their sizes and the revenues that they generate. Figures in reports and media vary significantly, and the methods used to obtain them are often obscure. This study develops four different estimation…
The Risks and Rewards of Organized Crime Investments in Real Estate
Despite growing interest in organized crime’s infiltration of the legal economy, research to date has paid little attention to the investments of criminal organizations in real estate. Using data on confiscated assets in 8,092 Italian municipalities between 2000 and 2012, this paper aims to remedy this lack of knowledge. Applying a risk–reward approach, based on the rational choice perspective, the analysis highlights what drives Italian mafia gr…
A Security Paradox. The Influence Of Governance-Type Organized Crime Over the Surrounding Criminal Environment
This study empirically demonstrates how governance-type organized crime groups (OCGs) operate as an enforcer against volume crimes in the communities they control and argues that their ability to mitigate volume crimes forms an integral component of controlling their territory in the long term. This is because the costs incurred from deterring other crimes are offset by the tangible and intangible revenues that it facilitates. Indeed, combating v…
Features of transnational illicit waste trafficking and crime prevention strategies to tackle it
Despite the growing interest in illicit waste trafficking (IWT), studies that empirically address the issue are still few. Mostly, they fail to present in-depth analysis of the different stages of IWT and to suggest crime prevention strategies. This study conducts a crime script analysis of five cross-border judicial cases from Italy to other countries. This method makes it possible to shed light on the characteristics of the different stages of …
Counterfeiting, illegal firearms, gambling and waste management: An exploratory estimation of four criminal markets
This article focuses on four different criminal markets: counterfeiting, illegal firearms trafficking, gambling and waste management. Despite recurrent allegations that these markets have a high mafia presence, there is a lack of reliable estimates of their sizes and the revenues that they generate. Figures in reports and media vary significantly, and the methods used to obtain them are often obscure. This study develops four different estimation…
The Risks and Rewards of Organized Crime Investments in Real Estate
Despite growing interest in organized crime’s infiltration of the legal economy, research to date has paid little attention to the investments of criminal organizations in real estate. Using data on confiscated assets in 8,092 Italian municipalities between 2000 and 2012, this paper aims to remedy this lack of knowledge. Applying a risk–reward approach, based on the rational choice perspective, the analysis highlights what drives Italian mafia gr…
Disentangling community-level changes in crime trends during the Covid-19 pandemic in Chicago
Recent studies exploiting city-level time series have shown that, around the world, several crimes declined after COVID-19 containment policies have been put in place. Using data at the community-level in Chicago, this work aims to advance our understanding on how public interventions affected criminal activities at a finer spatial scale. The analysis relies on a two-step methodology. First, it estimates the community-wise causal impact of social…
New Methods to Enhance the Study of Environmental Crimes and New Instruments to Strengthen Crime Prevention
The Global Waste Trafficking and Its Correlates
Our understanding of illicit waste trafficking (IWT) is in its embryonic stages; most notably, the transnational nature of this phenomenon has hitherto been neglected in extant empirical research. This study provides the first analysis of the possible coorrelates of transnational IWT at a global level. Through recourse to information extracted from the official Basel Convention National Reports, we constructed a network of the most relevant IWT c…
Features of transnational illicit waste trafficking and crime prevention strategies to tackle it
Despite the growing interest in illicit waste trafficking (IWT), studies that empirically address the issue are still few. Mostly, they fail to present in-depth analysis of the different stages of IWT and to suggest crime prevention strategies. This study conducts a crime script analysis of five cross-border judicial cases from Italy to other countries. This method makes it possible to shed light on the characteristics of the different stages of …
A Security Paradox. The Influence Of Governance-Type Organized Crime Over the Surrounding Criminal Environment
This study empirically demonstrates how governance-type organized crime groups (OCGs) operate as an enforcer against volume crimes in the communities they control and argues that their ability to mitigate volume crimes forms an integral component of controlling their territory in the long term. This is because the costs incurred from deterring other crimes are offset by the tangible and intangible revenues that it facilitates. Indeed, combating v…
Exploring the Immediate Effects of Covid-19 Containment Policies on Crime: An Empirical Analysis of the Short-Term Aftermath in Los Angeles
This work investigates whether and how COVID-19 containment policies had an immediate impact on crime trends in Los Angeles. The analysis is conducted using Bayesian structural time-series and focuses on nine crime categories and on the overall crime count, daily monitored from January 1st 2017 to March 28th 2020. We concentrate on two post-intervention time windows—from March 4th to March 16th and from March 4th to March 28th 2020—to dynamically…
Digging into waste: An analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces
This article examines the drivers of waste crime using a panel dataset at the provincial level in Italy. The results demonstrate that while waste crime is characterized by some degree of inertia, it lacks significant spatial patterns and does not respond to general modes of deterrence. With respect to income, the human capital effect prevails over the scale effect. An inefficient public sector and inadequate waste management system result in high…
Transnational trafficking networks of end-of-life vehicles and e-waste
Based on case studies and interviews, it appears that the transnational trafficking of various waste types follows distinct paths. However, this information only provides a partial view of the global waste trafficking network, as it has never been studied by combining all the known illegal flows of different waste types. To address this gap, we analysed data from the Basel Convention National Reports to reconstruct networks of countries that enga…
Name Your Price: Exploring the Costs of Professional Money Laundering Services in Large-Scale Cases in the United States
Crime as a “Normal” Phenomenon: Revisiting Durkheim in the Context of Crime Concentrations
In a radical reimagining of crime in the 19 th century, Émile Durkheim described crime as a “normal” phenomenon which was functional and essential to the workings of healthy societies. Durkheim noted that crime performs specific functions: it reinforces collective norms, clarifies the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and fosters social cohesion in response to violations. In his view, a healthy social order would lead to relatively normal or con…
Business (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Psychology (3 works)