Francesco Calderoni

Exploring the dynamic interplay between communication and co-offending using relational hyperevent data on an Italian mafia network

Abstract This study investigates the interdependence between criminal actors, relational hyperevents, and different types of events in an Italian mafia network. Relational hyperevents are time-ordered interactions involving any number of actors. We distinguish between communicati...

Criminal infiltration in the legal economy: An empirical analysis of firms linked to organized crime

Organized crime increasingly exploits legitimate businesses to infiltrate the legal economy. While previous empirical research has mainly relied on confiscated firms and judicially identified cases, considerably less is known about firms identified through preventive administrati...