EuroCrime® is an independent international research, training and consultancy institute specialising in criminology and security issues.

EuroCrime®'s organization is composed of highly qualified professionals in the academic and technical fields of criminal science, forensics, law, psychology, geopolitics, forecasting, environmental security, decision-making, intelligence, peacekeeping, military strategy and history, including corporate assessment and funding, personalized consultancy and publications.

Besides organising international workshops and seminars, EuroCrime® offers a wide range of training courses for law enforcement agencies, public and private institutions and businesses.

The EuroCrime® team is involved in numerous European and international research projects. EuroCrime® publishes ongoing studies and research results in leading scientific journals and presents at international conferences.

EuroCrime® offers seminars, customised training courses and workshops on security and prevention to local and state institutions, law enforcement agencies and to private sector businesses.

An Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach

Compared to other social sciences criminology is relatively new. It evolved out of criminal anthropology, psychiatry and other forensics sciences at the end of the 19th century. For a long period, criminology remained strictly bound to the medical sciences. In some countries, this discipline is still mostly connected (and confused) with forensic psychiatry and forensics. Criminology, however, has evolved as a separate science extending far beyond forensics.

Criminology can be defined as a 'horizontal' science that studies all the aspects connected with crime, including social behaviour. In fact, the main focus of this science is the crime itself and all its elements (first of all, the offender and the victim) and variables (the time of the action, the place, and so on). In the study and analysis of crime, criminology intersects with many different sciences and disciplines (medicine, criminal law, forensics, psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, psychology and social psychology, statistics, sociology, and so on) united by a common methodology.

Because criminal behaviour is organised and has become global, influenced by national and international policies, laws, and economics, the EuroCrime® research institute has developed its own unique methodology.

EuroCrime® methodology is based on an interdisciplinary approach that addresses the global nature of 21st century crime.

This innovative integrated methodology relies on all the traditional sciences connected with crime investigation as well as on very new contributions from geopolitics, language analysis and communication strategies, forecasting, strategy and strategic analysis, intelligence, military analysis, and new technologies such as the geographical information system (GIS) and its evolutions and applications.

Chief Executive Officer

Prof. Silvia Ciotti - President and Senior Member
of the EuroCrime® Research Institute

Prof. Silvia Ciotti Galletti holds a degree in Law from the Faculty of Jurisprudence of Florence University, and a Post–Bachelor Triennial University Specialization in Clinical Criminology at the University of Genoa, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Legal Medicine and Criminal Psychology (Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry Division).

She was Judge of the first judicial degree at the Penal Court of Florence from January 2001 to June 2006. Since 2002 she is an adjunct Professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, where she teaches Language of Deviance, Theory of International Criminal Communication and International Relationships, while simultaneously conducting university research activities in criminology and international relations. Professor Silvia Ciotti is currently the chair of the Department of Environmental Science at St. John International University of Turin and a researcher at CSSI - Centre of Strategic and International Studies (University of Florence) and ISPRI – Institute for Analysis Studies and International Research.

A member of the European, American and Italian Societies of Criminology, she is
President and Senior Member of the non-profit research institute “EuroCrime” (accredited by the Italian Forum for Urban Security). She actively collaborates as a researcher with various universities where she is operational in the sphere of innovative methodologies regarding safety, security and crime risk. Ongoing research also includes logistics of terrorism, crime mapping and risk forecasting, environmental crimes and evolution of Italian and international organized crime.

Prof. Ciotti is also an independent expert in the field of security for the European Commission. Dynamically involved in the national and international scientific field through participation at conferences, workshops and seminars, to which she is regularly invited as key speaker, Prof. Silvia Ciotti Galletti has written numerous scientific articles and publications on the topics of terrorism, organized crime and traffic of stolen/counterfeit works of art and archaeological and cultural patrimony in general.