Alberto Aziani is Associate Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He specializes in the study of illegal markets, transnational trafficking, illicit financial flows, and organized crime, with a particular focus on the convergence of criminal phenomena and their socio-economic impacts. He has served as consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, contributed to major international research projects on illicit trade and money laundering, and collaborated with Transcrime, BOTEC Analysis and other research institutions. His research has been widely published in leading criminology and social science journals, and he has co-authored influential reports for the European Commission, UNODC, and Transparency International.

• Aziani, A. (2018). Illicit Financial Flows: An Innovative Approach to Estimation. Springer Cham.
• Aziani, A. (2023). The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants. Trends Organ Crim 26, 80–106.
• Aziani, A., Berlusconi, G., & Giommoni, L. (2019). A Quantitative Application of Enterprise and Social Embeddedness Theories to the Transnational Trafficking of Cocaine in Europe. Deviant Behavior, 42(2), 245–267.
• Aziani, A., Bertoni, G.A., Jofre, M. et al. (2023).COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic. Trends Organ Crim 26, 114–135
• Aziani, A., Favarin, S., & Campedelli, G. M. (2020). Security Governance: Mafia Control over Ordinary Crimes. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 57(4), 444-492.
• Aziani, A., Ferwerda, J., & Riccardi, M. (2022). Who are our owners? Exploring the ownership links of businesses to identify illicit financial flows. European Journal of Criminology, 19(6), 1542-1573.
• Campedelli, G.M., Favarin, S., Aziani, A. et al.(2020). Disentangling community-level changes in crime trends during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chicago. Crime Sci 9, 21.
• Favarin, S., & Aziani, A. (2020). The Global Waste Trafficking and Its Correlates. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 36(3), 351-383.
• Giommoni, L., Aziani, A., & Berlusconi, G. (2017). How Do Illicit Drugs Move Across Countries? A Network Analysis of the Heroin Supply to Europe. Journal of Drug Issues, 47(2), 217-240.
• Guerette, R.T., Aziani, A. (2022). The Displacement and Convergence of Transnational Crime Flows. In: Savona, E.U., Guerette, R.T., Aziani, A. (eds) The Evolution of Illicit Flows. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham.