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Letizia Paoli

 

Letizia Paoli

Letizia Paoli Full Professor
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E-mail: Letizia.Paoli@law.kuleuven.be
Office hours : Tuesday 14h - 16h

Address:
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Office 00.82 - 3000 Leuven

Studies higher education Period Institute
Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences 1991 - 1997 European University Institute, Florence
Master in Political Sciences 1985 - 1990 University of Florence Faculty of Political Sciences ‘Cesare Alfieri’
Studies in political sciences, economics and law during fall semester 1989 Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Career Period Institute
Full professor in criminology 2006 - ... KU Leuven, Faculty of Law
Professor in criminology 2006 KU Leuven, Faculty of Law
Senior research fellow (Forschungsgruppenleiterin) 2001 - 2006 Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Department of Criminology, Freiburg
Senior research fellow (wissenschaftliche Referentin) 1998 - 2001 Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Department of Criminology, Freiburg
Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) 1996 - 1997 University of Tübingen Institute of Criminology
Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) 1996 - 1997 University of Gießen Institute of Sociology
Researcher 1994 - 1996 European University Institute, Florence
Consultant for the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), Italian Ministry of the Interior, in charge of writing a report on organized crime to be submitted by the Minister of the Interior to the Parliament 1992 - 1995 Italian Ministry of the Interior, Rome
Other professional activities
Member of the Beoordelingscommissie, which advises the Dean of the KU Leuven Faculty of Law on new professors to be hired and the promotion of current Faculty members 2012 - ... KU Leuven, Faculty of Law
Lecturer in the Master APC: “Analisi, prevenzione e contrasto della criminalità organizzata e della corruzione” 2012 Università di Pisa
Member of the jury of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology 2011 - ...  
Vice-president of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy 2011 - ... International Society for the Study of Drug Policy
Visiting professor 2010 - ... Erasmus University Rotterdam
Member of the KU Leuven Research Council 2010 - ... KU Leuven
Chair of the Commission of Evaluation of the Freiburg Sports Medicine 2009 - ... University of Freiburg
Part-time lecturer 1999 - 2002 University of Constance Faculty of History and Sociology
Visiting professor 2002 Sam Houston State University Criminal Justice Center, Huntsville, Texas
Lecturer for the Master of Criminology degree programme 2001 University of Lleida Faculty of Law
Visiting professor 2000 University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Consultant 1998 United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Rome
Consultant to the Executive Director 1997 United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Vienna
Consultant 1996 - 1997 Italian Ministry of Justice, Rome
Assistant 1993 - 1996 University of Florence Faculty of Political Sciences Cesare Alfieri
Part-time lecturer 1995 American Institute for Foreign Study, Florence
Awards and fellowships
Appointment to NewSouth Global Research Professor in Criminology (declined) 2004 Law School of the University of New South Wales
Premio internazionale G. Falcone e P. Borsellino’ for the book ‘Il crimine organizzato come fenomeno transnazionale: manifestazioni empiriche, prevenzione e repressione in Italia, Germania e Spagna’ (V. Militello, Letizia Paoli and Jörg Arnold, eds. Freiburg, edition iuscrim, 2002) 2001 Istituto Giuridico di Ricerca Comparata, Pontremoli
Five-year research professorship with C-3 status 2001 Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
Two-year, post-doc mobility research and training grant (Marie Curie fellowship) 1997 European Commission
Ten-month fellowship (declined) 1996 London School of Economics
Ten-month fellowship (declined) 1996 St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Ten-month fellowship spent at the University of Gießen Institute of Sociology 1996 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Ten-month fellowship spent at the University of Tübingen Institute of Criminology 1996 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Three-year scholarship to work as researhers at European University Institute, Florence 1991 Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Best Graduate of the University of Florence Faculty of Political Sciences 1991 University of Florence Faculty of Political Sciences ‘Cesare Alfieri’
Six-month a scholarship to study social and political sciences Georgetown University, Washington, DC 1989  
Research experience Period
Coordinator research line 2: Organized Crime, Drugs and Terrorism 2007 - ...
Co-principal investigator, ‘Public Perceptions of Crime Seriousness: To What Extent Are They Driven by Media Consumption?’ (with PhD student An Adriaenssen). Project funded by the FWO, Research Foundation Flanders. 02/2012 - 12/2015
Cannabis production in Belgium: assessment of the nature and harms, implications for priority setting (researcher Loes Kersten) 02/2012 - 07/2013
Promotor, F.W.O. Project, Black African Gangs in Brussels: Understanding the Seductiveness of Youth Gangs in a Late Modern Metropolis (researcher Elke Van Hellemont) 01/01/2011 - 01/01/2015
Co-principal investigator, 'New methodological tools for policy and programme evaluation' (with Loes Kersten) 02/2011 - 02/2013
Co-principal investigator, ‘Cannabis Production in Belgium: Asssessment of the Nature and Harms, and Implications for Priority Setting’ (with Prof. Dr. Tom Decorte, University of Gent). Project funded by Belgian Science Policy. 12/2011 - 08/2013
Investigator, leader of two work packages, ‘New Methodological Tools for Policy Analysis and Evaluation’ (Coordinator. Prof. Dr. Carla Rossi University of Tor Vergata, Rome). Project funded by the European Commission. 02/2011 - 01/2013
Co-principal investigator, ‘Black African Gangs in Brussels: Understanding the Seductiveness of Youth Gangs in a Late Modern Metropolis’ (with Ph.D. student Elke van Hellemont). Project funded by the FWO, Research Foundation Flanders. 01/2011 - 12/2014
Co-principal investigator, ‘Doping and Its Supply: Exploring the Market and Assessing the Impact of Anti-Doping Policies in Belgian and French Cyclying’ (with Ph.D. student Bertrand Fincouer). Project funded by the FWO, Research Foundation Flanders. 01/2011 - 12/2014
Co-principal investigator, ‘The Trafficking of Doping Products and the Challenges of Supply Reduction: An Examination of Italy’s Experience’ (with Dr. Sandro Donati (Anti-Doping Commission, Italy) and Prof. Dr. Victoria A. Greenfield (Naval Academy, USA). Project funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency. 07/2010 - 03/2012
Chair of the international commission of evaluation set up by the University of Freiburg to evaluate Freiburg Sports Medicine Department and investigate allegations of doping involving some department researchers. Project funded by the University of Freiburg. 12/2009 - ...
Co-organizer, ‘International Summer Schools on Organized Crime’, the second of which was held in Leuven in June-July 2011. Project funded by the European Commission  and the European Consortium for Political Research. 01/2009 - 12/2011
Co-principal investigator, ‘Appraising the Dangerousness of Organised Crime(with Prof. Dr. Tom Vander Beken, University of Gent). Project funded by Belgian Science Policy. 04/2008 - 08/2011
Principal investigator, ‘Illegal Drug Markets in Four European Cities: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Milan.’ Project funded by the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg. 01/2007 - 08/2010
Member of the Steering Board Committee guiding and supervising the work of researchers at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Intervict of the Tilburg University for the project ‘Developing Standards for Assistance to Victims of Terrorism’. Project funded by the European Commission. 03/2007 - 06/2008
Co-principal investigator, Cannabis Non-Prosecution Policies in Germany (with Carsten Schäfer). Project funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 01/2003 - 09/2007
Co-Promotor of Jana Arsovska’s Ph.D. dissertationUnderstanding a 'Culture of Violence and Crime': the Role of Cultural Codes in the Evolution of Ethnic Albanian Organised Crime Groups’. 02/2006 - 08/2009
Co-principal investigator, ‘Modelling the World Heroin Market: Assessing the Consequences of Changes in Afghanistan Production’ (with Prof. Dr. Peter Reuter, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs and Rand, Santa Monica and Dr. Victoria Greenfield,Rand, Santa Monica). Project funded by European Commission, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, The Netherlands Ministry of Justice  and Smith Richardson Foundation. 09/2001 - 06/2005
Co-principal investigator, 'Drogenkonsum und Strafverfolgungspraxis: Die Einstellung von Drogenkonsumentendelikten in den deutschen Bundesländern (Drug Consumption and Criminal Prosecution in Germany with Carsten Schäfer). Project partially funded by the German Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung.                     11/2002 - 10/2005
Co-principal investigator, ‘Organised Crime in Europe: Conception, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond (with Prof. Dr. Cyrille Fijnaut, Tilburg University). Project partially funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. 10/1999 - 12/2004
Principal investigator. ‘Illegal Drug Trade in Russia’. Project funded by United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Vienna. 07/1999 - 01/2001
Principal investigator. ‘Pilot Project to Describe and Analyse Local Drug Markets — Illegal Drug Markets in Frankfurt and Milan’. Project funded by European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon. 10/1999 - 09/2000
Co-principal investigator, ‘Joint Program to Combat Organised Crime’ — ‘Il crimine organizzato come fenomeno transnazionale: manifestazioni empiriche, prevenzione e repressione in Italia, Germania e Spagna’ (with Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Militello, Università degli Studi di Palermo). Project funded by the European Commission’s Falcone Programme. 09/1998 - 01/2000
Principal investigator, ‘The Double Construction of Crime. Patterns of Definition and of Organization of Crime in Two European Cities’. Project associated with a two-year post-doc scholarship and funded by the European Commission’s ‘Training and Mobility of Researchers’ Marie-Curie Programme. 02/1998 - 01/2000
Teaching experience Period
Inleiding in de criminologie 2010 - ...
Methodology seminar: qualitative research methods (with Jeroen Maesschalck) 2007 - ...
Criminological theories and models of law enforcement 2007 - ...
Terrorism, organized and corporate crime 2007 - ...
Stadscriminaliteit en grootstedenbeleid 2007 - ...
(with Jeroen Maesschalck and Johan Goethals) ‘Research Methods II’, K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law Advanced Masters in European Criminology 2006 - 2008
(with Jeroen Maesschalck) ‘Research Methods I’, K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law Advanced Master in European Criminology 2006
(with Frank Verbruggen) ‘Terrorism, Organised and Corporate Crime’, K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law Advanced Master in European Criminology 2006
Editorial boards
Associate Editor, Global Crime (07/2010 - ...)
Associate Editor, Journal of Drug Policy Analysis (04/2010 - ...)
Associate Editor, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (05/2007 - ...)
Member of the editorial Board, Trends in Organized Crime (02/2006 - ...)
Member of the editorial Board, Trends in Organized Crime (02/2006 - ...)Member of the International Editorial Board, European Society of Criminology (01/2003 - 06/2005)
Reviewer of numerous journals and book series, including Addiction, American Journal of Sociology, Criminology, International Journal of Drug Policy and University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Series.
Publications
Articles in international or national peer reviewed journals
Greenfield, Victoria A. and Letizia Paoli. 2012. ‘If Supply-Oriented Drug Policy is Broken, Can “Harm Reduction” Help Fix It?’. International Journal of Drug Policy, doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.04.007.
Paoli, Letizia, Victoria A. Greenfield and A. Zoutendijk. 2012. ‘The Harms of Cocaine Trafficking: Applying a New Framework for Assessment’. Criminology, submitted.
Greenfield, Victoria A. and Letizia Paoli. 2012 ‘A Framework to Assess the Harms of Crimes’. Law and Society Review, submitted.
Paoli, Letizia, Victoria A. Greenfield and Peter Reuter.2012 forthcoming. ‘Change is Possible: The History of the International Drug Control Regime and Implications for Future Policymaking’, Substance Use and Misuse.
Greenfield, Victoria A., Letizia Paoli and Peter Reuter 2010 ‘Is Medicinal Opium Production Afghanistan's Answer?: A Reply To Comments’, Journal of Drug Policy Analysis: Vol. 3 (1): article 4.
Greenfield, Victoria A., Letizia Paoli and Peter Reuter. 2009.‘Is Medicinal Opium Production Afghanistan’s Answer? Lessons from India and the World Market’. Journal of Drug Policy Analysis 2 (1): article 3.
Paoli, Letizia, Victoria A. Greenfield, Molly Charles and Peter Reuter 2009. ‘India: The Third Largest Illicit Opium Producer?’ Addiction: 104(3): 347-354. (ISI-Annotated; Impact Factor: 4.014).
Paoli, Letizia. 2009. ‘De “politiek-criminele nexus” in Italië: Honderdvijftig jaar betrekkingen tussen maffia en politiek’, Justitiële Verkenningen 3: 30-46.
Paoli, Letizia and Peter Reute. 2008r ‘Ethnic Minorities and Drug Trafficking’, European Journal of Criminology, 5: 13-37.
Paoli, Letizia. 2008.‘Organized Crime: New Label, New Phenomenon or Policy Expedient?’. International Annals of Criminology, 46 (1/2): 37-60.
Paoli, Letizia. 2007. ‘Mafia and Organised Crime: The Unacknowledged Successes of Law Enforcement’, West European Politics, (ISI-Annotated; Impact Factor: 0.704).
Paoli, Letizia. Irina Rabkov, Victoria A. Greenfield and Peter Reuter. 2007. ‘Tajikistan: The Rise of a Narco-State’, Journal of Drug Issues 37 (4): 951-980. (ISI-Annotated; Impact Factor: 0.965).
Fijnaut, Cyrille and Letizia Paoli 2006. ‘Organised Crime and Its Control Policies’, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 14(3): 307-327, 2006.
Fijnaut, Cyrille and  Letizia Paoli 2006. ‘Organised Crime Control Policies in Europe’, Criminology in Europe, 5 (1): 3, 12-13.
Paoli, Letizia. 2004-2005. ‘Italian Mafia, Adieu? Comments on Carlo Rossetti’s “Terrorism, Organized Crime and Hidden Political Monopolies”’, Angewandte Sozialforschung: 23 (3/4): 231-238.
Paoli, Letizia. 2004. ‘The Illegal Drugs Market’, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 9 (2): 188-208.
Paoli, Letizia. 2004. ‘The Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law’, Criminology in Europe, 3 (2): 3; 20-22.
Paoli, Letizia. 2004. ‘Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises’, Global Crime, 6 (1): 19-31.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘“Die unsichtbare Hand des Marktes”: Illegaler Drogenhandel in Deutschland, Italien und Russland’, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Sonderheft 43: 356-383.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘The Development of an Illegal Market: Drug Consumption and Trade in Post-Soviet Russia’, British Journal of Criminology, 42 (1): 21-39.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘“Flexible Hierarchies and Dynamic Disorder”: The Drug Distribution System in Frankfurt and Milan’, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 9 (2): 143-151.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘The Paradoxes of Organized Crime’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 37 (1): 51-97.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘The Price of Freedom: Illegal Drug Markets and Policies in Post-Soviet Russia’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political Sciences, 582, July: 167-180.
Paoli, Letizia. 2001. ‘Crime, Italian Style’, Daedalus, Summer: 157-185.
Paoli, Letizia. 2001. ‘Drug Trafficking in Russia: A Form of Organized Crime?’, Journal of Drug Issues, 31 (4): 1005-1034.
Paoli, Letizia. and Marco Santoro. 2001. ‘Azione, istituzioni, cultura: Paradigmi per lo studio delle mafie’, Polis XV (3): 337-339.
Paoli, Letizia. 2001. ‘Mafia e mutamenti di paradigma: atteggiamento, impresa, o fratellanze multifunzionali e segrete?’, Polis XV (3): 341-362.
Paoli, Letizia. 2001. ‘Mafia: modello universale di crimine organizzato?’, Rassegna italiana di sociologia, XLII (4): 579-608.
Paoli, Letizia. 2001. ‘La mafia è sconfitta?’, Il Mulino, L (maggio/giugno): 477-485.
Paoli, Letizia. 1999. ‘Broken Bonds: Mafia and Politics in Sicily’, Trends in Organized Crime, 5 (2): 15-58.
Paoli, Letizia. 1999. ‘Associazioni mafiose e contratti di status’, Quaderni di sociologia, XLII (18): 73-95.
Paoli, Letizia. 1999. ‘Die italienische Mafia: Paradigma oder Spezialfall der organisierten Kriminalität?’ Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 6: 425-440.
Paoli, Letizia. 1998.‘Criminal Fraternities or Criminal Enterprises?’, Transnational Organized Crime, 4 (3-4): 88-108.
Paoli, Letizia. 1998. ‘Éléments pour la compréhension de la mafia en Italie’, Les Cahiers de la sécurité intérieure, 32 (2e trimestre): 189-212.
Paoli, Letizia. 1997. ‘The Political Criminal Nexus in Italy’, Trends in Organized Crime, 3 (1): 49-56.
Paoli, Letizia. 1997. ‘Seizure and Confiscation Measures in Italy: An Evaluation of Their Effectiveness and Constitutionality’, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 5 (3): 256-273.
Paoli, Letizia. 1997. ‘Recensione del libro “Corruzione politica e società italiana” di Mauro Magatti’, Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione, XLIV (1): 231-234.
Paoli, Letizia. 1996. ‘The Integration of the Italian Crime Scene’, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2 (3): 131-162.
Paoli, Letizia. 1995. ‘The Banco Ambrosiano Case: An Investigation into the Underestimation of the Relations between Organized Crime and Economic Crime’, Crime, Law and Social Change, XXIII (4): 345-365.
Paoli, Letizia. 1994. ‘An Underestimated Criminal Phenomenon: the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta’, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2 (3): 212-238.
Paoli, Letizia. 1993. ‘Criminalità organizzata e finanza internazionale’, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, XXXIV (3): 391-423.
Articles in other scientific journals
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘Prestypnij oborot narkotikov v Rossii’ (‘Is Illegal Drug Trafficking a Form of Organised Criminal Activity’), Kriminologia: vchera, segodna, savtra (Criminology: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow), 2 (5): 168-179.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘Rasvitie nesakonnogo rinka narkotikov: potreblenie i torgovla v postsovetskoj Rossii’ (‘The Development of an Illegal Drug Market: Drug Consumption and Trade in Post-Soviet Russia’), Kriminologia: vchera, segodna, savtra (Criminology: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow), 2 (3): 52-75.
Paoli, Letizia and Eliko Ciklauri-Lammich. 2002. ‘Osnovnije Aspekti politiki Rossii po protivodejstvijy nesakonnomy oboroty i y potreblenijy narkotikov’ (‘The Fundamental Aspects of Russian Drug Policy’), Pravo i Politika (Law and Politics) 2 (26): 32-38.
Paoli, Letizia and Christine Stockhammer. 2001.‘Session one: Policy-Making in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’, Collegium, No. 22, XII, Special Edition — Proceedings of the Conference: ‘Integrated Security in Europe, a Democratic Perspective’: 120-123.
Books published as an author
Paoli, Letizia, Victoria A. Greenfield and Peter Reuter. 2009. The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut? New York: Oxford University Press.
Schäfer, Carsten and Letizia Paoli. 2006. Drogenkonsum und Strafverfolgungspraxis: Eine Untersuchung zur Rechtswirklichkeit der Anwendung des § 31 a BTMG und anderer Opportunitätsvorschriften auf Drogenkonsumentendelikte. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style. New York: Oxford University Press.
Paoli, Letizia. 2001. Illegal Drug Trade in Russia. A Research Project Commissioned by the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim.
Paoli, Letizia. 2001. Nezakonnaja torgovla narkotikami v Rossii (Illegal Drug Trade in Russia). Moscow: UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention.
Paoli, Letizia. 2000. Fratelli di mafia: Cosa Nostra e ’Ndrangheta. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Paoli, Letizia. 1995. La scommessa della trasparenza. L'esperienza statunitense e italiana nella regolazione del mercato mobiliare. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino.
Books published as an editor
Paoli, Letizia (ed.). 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime. New York: Oxford University Press.
Parmentier, Stephan, Lode Walgrave, Ivo Aertsen, Jeroen Maesschalck and Letizia Paoli (eds.). 2011. A Sparking Discipline. The Contribution of Criminology to Social Justice and Sustainable Development. Essays on the Occasion of the Honorary Doctorate for John Braithwaite. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Fijnaut, Cyrille and Letizia Paoli (eds.) 2004. Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond. Dordrecht: Springer.
Militello, Vincenzo, Letizia Paoli, Jörg Arnold (eds.) 2000. Il crimine organizzato come fenomeno transnazionale: manifestazioni empiriche, prevenzione e repressione in Italia, Germania e Spagna. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim.
Militello, Vincenzo, Jörg Arnold and Letizia Paoli (eds.) 2000. Organisierte Kriminalität als transnationales Phänomen: Erscheinungsformen, Prävention und Repression in Italien, Deutschland und Spanien. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim.
Contribution in collections
Paoli, Letizia. 2012 forthcoming. ‘Mafia und organisierte Kriminalität’, in Karoline Rörig, Ulrich Glassmann und Stefan Köppl, eds., Länderbericht Italien. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
Paoli, Letizia. 2011.‘Why Is Illicit Opium Production Concentrated in Afghanistan and Burma?’: in Ivo Aertsen, Tom Daems, Annelies Haaren, Frank Hutsebaut and Jeroen Maesschalck (eds.) Deviante Wetenschap: Het Domein van de Criminologie. Liber Amicorum Johan Goethals. Leuven: Acco: 177-190.
Paoli, Letizia.2011.‘Searching for the Determinants of Organized Crime: Some Initial Reflections’. In Toine Spapens, Marc Groenhuisen and Tijs Kooijmans (eds.) Universalis: Liber Amicorum Cyrille Fijnaut. Antwerpen: Intersentia: 735-749.
Paoli, Letizia. 2010.‘Mafia’, Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, ed. Mosaico Italia: Lo stato del Paese agli inizi del XXI secolo. Milano: Angeli.
Paoli, Letizia, and Antonio La Spina 2009. ‘Mafia e antimafia’, in Simone Bertolino, Nicola Pasini and Aldo Bonomi, eds., Per una storia della cultura italiana. Torino: UTET: 494-530.
Paoli, Letizia, Antoine Spapens and Cyrille Fijnaut. 2009 ‘Drug Trafficking’ in Fiona Brookman, Mike Maguire, Harriet Pierpoint and Trevor Bennet, eds. Handbook of Crime. Willan: 626-650.
Paoli, Letizia. 2009. ‘Why Is Illicit Opium Production Concentrated in Afghanistan and Burma?’, in Chrisje Brants en Sari van der Poel, eds. Diverse Kwesties. The Hague: Boom: 193-204.
Paoli, Letizia and Cyrille Fijnaut. ‘Transnational Organised Crime’, in Rüdiger Wolfrum, ed., Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, online edition.
Paoli, Letizia. 2008. ‘Illegal Drugs Trade’, in Ramkishen S. Rajan and Kenneth A. Reinert, eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Paoli, Letizia. 2008. ‘The Decline of the Italian Mafia’, in Dina Siegel and Hans Nelen, eds., Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and Policies. New York: Springer: 15-28.
Fijnaut, Cyrille and Letizia Paoli. 2008. ‘Criminalité organisée’, in Yves Bertoncini, Thierry Chopin, Anne Dulphy, Sylvain Kahn, Christine Manigand, eds., Dictionnnaire critique de l’Union Européenne. Paris: Armand Colin: 99-100.
Paoli, Letizia and Cyrille Fijnaut. 2006.‘Organised Crime and Anti-Crime Policies. In Developments in European Politics. Hrsg. P.M. Heywood, E. Jones, M. Rhodes and U. Sedelmeier. London: Palgrave: 299-317.
Paoli, Letizia. 2006. ‘Organisierte Kriminalität -- Erscheinungsfomen und Ursachen’, in Wilhelm Heitmeyer and Monika Schroettle, eds., Gewalt zerstört: Berichte, Analysen, Prävention: 389-411. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
Paoli, Letizia. 2005. ‘Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises’, in Mark Galeotti, ed., Global Crime Today: The Changing Face of Organised Crime: 19-32. London: Routledge.
Pacula, Rosalie L., Robert MacCoun, Peter Reuter, Jamie Chriqui, Beau Kilmer, Katherine Harris, Letizia Paoli and Carsten Schäfer. 2005. ‘What Does It Mean to Decriminalize Marijuana? A Cross-National Empirical Examination’, in Björn Lindgren and Michael Grossman, eds., Substance Abuse: Individual Behaviour, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics: 347-370. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Paoli, Letizia. 2005. ‘The Ugly Side of Capitalism and Democracy: The Development of the Illegal Drug Market in Post-Soviet Russia’, in William A. Pridemore, ed., Ruling Russia: Crime, Law and Justice in Post-Soviet Russia: 183-202. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Paoli, Letizia. 2004.‘Organised Crime in Italy: Mafia and Illegal Markets—Exception and Normality’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds. Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 263-302. Dordrecht: Springer.
Paoli, Letizia and Cyrille Fijnaut. 2004. ‘Preface’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: v-vii. Dordrecht: Springer.
Paoli, Letizia. and Cyrille Fijnaut. 2004. ‘General Introduction’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 1-19. Dordrecht: Springer.
Paoli, Letizia. and Cyrille Fijnaut- 2004. Introduction to Part I: The History of the Concept’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 21-46. Dordrecht: Springer.
Fijnaut, Cyrille and Paoli, Letizia. 2004. ‘Comparative Synthesis of Part I’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 225-237. Dordrecht: Springer.
Paoli, Letizia. and Cyrille Fijnaut. 2004. ‘Introduction to Part II: Sources and Literature’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 239-262. Dordrecht: Springer.
Paoli, Letizia. and Cyrille Fijnaut. 2004. ‘Comparative Synthesis of Part II’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 603-623. Dordrecht: Springer.
Fijnaut, Cyrille and Paoli, Letizia 2004. ‘Introduction to Part III: The Initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 625-640. Dordrecht: Springer.
Fijnaut, Cyrille and  Paoli, Letizia 2004.‘Comparative Synthesis of Part III’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds,. Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 1035-1041. Dordrecht: Springer.
Paoli, Letizia. and Cyrille Fijnaut. 2004 ‘General Conclusions’, in Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond: 1043-1044. Dordrecht: Springer.
Paoli, Letizia.2004. ‘Verbrechensfurcht und organisierte Kriminalität: “Die Russen-Mafia”’, in Michael Walter, Harald Kania and Hans-Jörg Albrecht, eds., Alltagsvorstellungen von Kriminalität: Individuelle und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Kriminalitätsbildern für die Lebensgestaltung: 287-310. Münster: LIT.
Paoli, Letizia. 2004. ‘Die italienische Mafia: Paradigma oder Spezialfall der organisierten Kriminalität?’, in Gunter Gehl, ed., Geldwäschebekämpfung, Zeugenschutz, Gewinnabschöpfung: Wege zur Bekämpfung der organisierten Kriminalität? Ein europäischer Vergleich: 9-26. Weimar: Bertuch.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘Broken Bonds: Mafia and Politics in Sicily’, in Roy Godson, ed., Menace to Society: Political Criminal Collaboration Around the World: 27-70. New Brunswick: Transaction.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘The Informal Economy and Organized Crime’, in Joanna Shapland, Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Jason Ditton and Thierry Godefroy, eds., The Informal Economy: Threat and Opportunity in the City: 133-172. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘Information on the National Legal Instruments to Control Organised Environmental Crime in Italy’, in Betreuungsgesellschaft für Umweltfragen, ed., Organised Environmental Crime in the EU Member States. A Report for the European Commission: 294-341. Kassel: Betreuungsgesellschaft für Umweltfragen.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘The Invisible Hand of the Market: The Illegal Drugs Trade in Germany, Italy, and Russia’, in Petrus C. van Duyne, Klaus van Lampe and James L. Newell, eds., Criminal Finances and Organising Crime in Europe: 19-40. Nijmegen: Wolf.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘Il crimine organizzato’, in Marzio Barbagli, ed., Rapporto sulla criminalità in Italia: 275-300. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘Il mercato delle droghe’, in Marzio Barbagli, ed., Rapporto sulla criminalità in Italia: 81-108. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Paoli, Letizia. 2003. ‘Das “pacchetto giudiziario” — Reformbedarf für die italienische Justiz’, in Bernd Rill, ed., Italien im Aufbruch — eine Zwischenbilanz: 155-168. München: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘Drug Trafficking’, in David Levinson, ed., Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Vol. 1: 569-576. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘The Italian Mafia’, in David Levinson, ed., Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Vol. 2: 938-940. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘The Implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Concepts and Actors’, in Hans-Jörg Albrecht and Cyrille Fijnaut, eds., The Containment of Transnational Organized Crime. Comments on the UN Convention of December 2000: 207-233. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘Il confronto tra Milano e Francoforte’, in Ufficio Tossicodipendenze del Comune di Milano, ed., Tossicodipendenze a Milano nel 2000: 156-158. Milan: Comune di Milano.
Paoli, Letizia. 2002. ‘Italien’, in Michael Kilchling, ed., Die Praxis der Gewinnabschöpfung in Europa: 239-295. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 2002.
(with Hans-Jörg Albrecht) 'Cannabis Policies in Frankfurt', in the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and ES&E, eds., Drug Policies in European Countries and Cities - Reference Book: 63-77. The Hague: Ministry of Justice, 2001.
‘Criminal Fraternities or Criminal Enterprises?’, in Phil Williams and Dimitri Vlassis, eds., Combating Transnational Crime. Concepts, Activities and Responses: 88-108. London: Frank Cass, 2001.
‘Organised Crime in Italy and Germany: A Sociological and Criminological Perspective’, in Vincenzo Militello and Barbara Huber, eds., Towards a European Criminal Law Against Organised Crime. Proposals and Summaries of the Joint European Project to Counter Organised Crime: 161-166. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 2001.
‘Il crimine all’italiana’, in Steven Graubard and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, eds., Il caso italiano 2. Dove sta andando il nostro paese?: 467-503. Milan: Garzanti, 2001.
‘Da Caino a Caino’, Narcomafie, IX (10): 35-38, 2001.
‘Milano-Francoforte: i supermercati della droga’, Narcomafie, Anno IX, No. 4, April: 41-44, 2001.
‘Arcipelago Droga’, Narcomafie, Anno IX, No. 6, June: 35-39, 2001.
(with Howard Parker, Jane Fountain, Peter Blanken, Uwe Kemmessies and Karen Ellen Spannow) ‘Exploring Relationships between Illicit Drugs and Crime: Qualitative Research Across the European Union’, in Jane Fountain, ed., Understanding and Responding to Drug Use: The Role of Qualitative Research: 167-174. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000.
‘Qualitative Methodology at the Edge: Assessing Italian Mafia Groups’ Involvement in Drug Trafficking’, in Jane Fountain, ed., Understanding and Responding to Drug Use: The Role of Qualitative Research: 191-196. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000.
‘La criminalità organizzata’, Appendice 2000, Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani: 997-1004. Rome: Treccani, 2000.
Il crimine organizzato come fenomeno transnazionale: manifestazioni empiriche, prevenzione e repressione in Italia, Germania e Spagna: 85-122. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 2000.
‘Organisierte Kriminalität: Erscheinungsformen, Prävention und Repression in Italien, Deutschland und Spanien’, in Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, ed., Jahrbuch 2000: 857-863. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000.
‘Das Organisierte Verbrechen in Italien und Deutschland’, in Vincenzo Militello, Jörg Arnold, and Letizia Paoli, eds., Organisierte Kriminalität als transnationales Phänomen: Erscheinungsformen, Prävention und Repression in Italien, Deutschland und Spanien: 55-62. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 2000.
‘The Future of Sicilian and Calabrian Organized Crime’, in Stanley Einstein and Menachem Amir, eds., Organized Crime: Uncertainties and Dilemmas: 155-186.Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
‘Organized Crime: Criminal Organizations or the Organization of Crime?’ in Hans-Jörg Albrecht, ed., Forschungen zu Kriminalität und Kriminalitätskontrolle am Max Planck Institute für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg i. Br.: 135-173. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 1999.
‘Organized Crime in Germany’, in Cliomedia Officina, ed., The Mafia. 150 Years of Facts, Stories and Faces, CD-Rom. Palermo and Turin: Città di Palermo and Cliomedia Officina, 1999.
‘Traffickings in Drugs’, in Cliomedia Officina, ed., The Mafia. 150 Years of Facts, Stories and Faces, CD-Rom. Palermo and Turin: Città di Palermo and Cliomedia Officina, 1999.
‘Sacra Corona Unita’, Nuovo Dizionario Enciclopedico Treccani, Rome: Treccani, 1999.
‘Organized Crime: Criminal Organizations or the Organization of Crime?’ in Hans-Jörg Albrecht and Helmut Kury, eds., Research on Crime and Criminal Justice at the Max Planck Institutee: Summaries: 81-86. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 1998.
‘The Pentiti’s Contribution to the Conceptualization of the Mafia Phenomenon’, in Vincenzo Ruggiero, Nigel South and Ian Taylor, eds., The New European Criminology, Crime and Social Order in Europe: 264-285. London: Routledge, 1998.
Droga-Traffici’, in Cliomedia Officina, ed., Mafia: 150 anni di storia e storie, CD-Rom. Palermo and Turin: Città di Palermo and Cliomedia Officina, 1998.
(with Susan Strange) ‘Il crimine organizzato: le mafie’, in Susan Strange, Chi governa l’economia mondiale?: 165-180. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998.
(with Annette Verster) ‘Bibliography of Qualitative Research in Italy’, in Jane Fountain and Paul Griffiths, eds., Inventory, Bibliography and Synthesis of Qualitative Research in the European Union, Vol. 3, Bibliography: 202-218. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 1997.
(with Annette Verster) ‘Profile of Qualitative Research in Italy’, in Jane Fountain and Paul Griffiths, eds., Inventory, Bibliography and Synthesis of Qualitative Research in the European Union, Vol. 1, Synthesis, Country Profiles, Seminar Report: 64-66. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 1997.
(with Susanne Hein) ‘Italien’, in Michael Kilchling and Günther Kaiser, eds., Möglichkeiten der Gewinnabschöpfung zur Bekämpfung der Organisierten Kriminalität: 417-518. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 1997.
(with Susan Strange) ‘Organised Crime: The Mafias’, in Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State. The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy: 100-121. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
‘Il riciclaggio: dimensioni e dinamiche’, in Fondazione Rosselli, ed., Secondo Rapporto sulle Priorità Nazionali: La criminalità organizzata: 109-135. Milan: Mondadori, 1995.
‘'Ndrangheta’, Nuovo Dizionario Enciclopedico Treccani, Vol. VIII: 53-54. Rome: Treccani, 1995.
‘Riflessione sul libro di Felice Chilanti: Vita di Capomafia’, in Sergio Garbato, ed., Felice Chilanti: uomo, scrittore, giornalista: 41-46. Rovigo: Amministrazione Provinciale di Rovigo, 1994.
‘Prefazione’, in Nick Gentile, Vita di capomafia. Memorie raccolte da Felice Chilanti: 7-13. Rome: Crescenzi Allendorf, 1993.
(with Pino Arlacchi) ‘Le schiave del sesso’, Panorama, 29 agosto: 66-75, 1993.
‘Da Portella a Capaci’, in Mafia, enclosed to Panorama, 19 ottobre: 72-85, 1992.
Lectures at conferences, congress, symposia and other gatherings (selection)
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, Santa Monica, March 15, 2010:‘Change Is Possible: History of the International Drug Control Regime and Implications for Future Policymaking’, 2010.
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, Santa Monica, March 15, 2010:‘The Harms of Cocaine Trafficking and Other Criminal Activities: Testing a New Framework for Assessment’ (together with Victoria A. Greenfield), 2010.
Free University, Amsterdam, February 10: ‘The Italian Mafia: Specificities and Decline’, 2010.
11th Cross-border Crime Colloquium, Ghent University, November 27: ‘Assessing the Harms of Organised Crime’ (together with Andries Zoutendijk), 2009.
International Seminar: ‘Crime and Criminals in Time of Crisis in Europe and on a Global Scale,’ European Parliament, Brussels December 3: ‘Organized Crime in Times of Crisis in Europe’, 2009.
European Commission Conference: ’Bridging the Research Gap in the Field of Illicit Drugs in the EU.’ September 25: ‘Drug Supply (Reduction): State of the Play and Knowledge Gaps’, 2009.
Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, June 24: ‘The Impact of Enforcement on Organized Crime: The Role of Governments in Shaping World Heroin Trafficking’, Key-note lecture, 2009.
Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, June 23: ‘Sicilian Cosa Nostra’s Migration Waves and the Factors Promoting Organized Crime Internationalization’, 2009.

CIROC Seminar: ‘Politiek en georganiseerde misdaad’, Free University Amsterdam, May 13: ‘The Political Criminal Nexus in Italy: 150 Years of Relationships between Mafia and Politics’, 2009.

XV World Congress of the International Society of Criminology, Barcelona, July 22: ‘Organized Crime: A New Label, NewPhenomenon or Policy Expedient?’. Key-note lecture, 2008.
European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction Reitox Academy on Sentencing Statistics, Paris, June 13: “How to Know More on Drug Law Implementation across Europe?”, 2008.
Second Chamber of The Netherlands Parliament, The Hague, February 28: ‘The UNGASS Goals and the World Heroin Market: Policy Implications from a Five-Year Long Research Project’. Testimony, 2008.
‘Strategies for Combating International Organised Crime’, The Ditchley Foundation, Oxford, January 25: ‘The Threat from Organized Crime: Introductory Comments’, 2008.
Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei, May 22: ‘Wie stellt sich das Phänomen organisierter Kriminalität aktuell dar?’, 2007, Bologna & Atlanta.
Open Society Institute and UN Secretariat, Conference: ‘Fighting Drugs and Building Peace: Promoting Coherence between Counter-Narcotics and Peace-Building Policies’, May 14-15: ‘Which Comes First? The Difficulties of Reconciling Drug Control and Peace-Building’, 2007.
K.U. Leuven Patroonsfeest, February 2: ‘Laudatio for the honorary doctorate of Roberto Benigni’, 2007.
University of Pécs Kriminologischer Sommerkurs, June 19: ‘Organisierte Kriminalität in Europa’, 2006.
Stockholm Criminology Symposium, June 16: ‘The Different Local Dimensions of Different Forms of Organized Crime’, 2006.
NATO Defence College, Rome, May 17: ‘Organised Crime in Europe and Beyond: A New Security Threat?’, 2006.
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Bi-Annual Meeting of the Supervisory Board, Freiburg, April 26: ‘Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond’, 2006.
University of New South Wales, Sydney, November 22: ‘The Consequences of Varying Illegality: Insight from a Project on the World Heroin Market’, 2004.
American Society of Criminology Conference, Nashville, November 18: ‘Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style’, Author Meets Critics Session, 2004.
European Society of Criminology Conference, Amsterdam, August 26: ‘Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style’, Author Meets Critics Session, 2004.
‘Seminar on Organised Crime’, The Netherlands Ministry of Justice, The Hague, June 10: ‘Do We Know Enough to Tackle Organised Crime Adequately?', 2004.
University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, February 5: ‘The Italian Mafia: A Paradigm of Organised Crime Worldwide?’, 2004.
The Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies‚ February 13: ‘The Ugly Side of Capitalism: The Development of the Illegal Drug Market in Post-Soviet Russia’, 2004.
Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, February 28: “Mafia and Organised Crime in Italy“. International Conference: „Organised Crime in Europe: Conceptions, Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond“, 2003.
G. Beto Lecture, Criminal Justice Center, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, March 27: ‘Mafia and Organized Crime’, 2002.
New York University Law School, March 21: ‘The Mafia in Italy and the United States’, 2002.
Fachtagung: ‘Cannabispolitik im europäischen Vergleich’, Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90 — Die Grünen, Berlin, June 3: ‘Cannabis — Entpönalisierung?’, 2002.
Expertentagung der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung: ‘Tra un anno faremo una verifica’ — Das erste Jahr der Berlusconi-Regierung, Wildbad Kreuth, June 13: ‘Il “pacchetto giudiziario” — Reformbedarf für die italienische Justiz’, 2002.
First European Conference on Drug Trafficking and Law Enforcement, London, October 11: ‘Mafia = or ≠ Organised Crime?’, 2001.
High-Level Expert Meeting on East European Organised Crime, Europol, The Hague, November 29: ‘Drug Trafficking in Russia: A Case of Organised Crime?’, 2001.
Studientagung für Polizeibeamte, Richter, Staatsanwälte und Interessierte: ‘Geldwäsche, Gewinnabschöpfung und Zeugenschutz: Wege zur Bekämpfung der Organisierten Kriminalität? — Ein europäischer Vergleich’, Katholische Akademie Trier, May 16-17:  ‘Die Mafia in Italien: Ihre Geschäfte und ihre Gewinne’ und ‘Gewinnabschöpfung und Zeugenschutz als wirksame Waffen zur Bekämpfung der Organisierten Kriminalität in Italien’, 2001.
Seminare am hessischen Landeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, January 21: ‘Die italienische Mafia: Paradigma oder Spezialfall der organisierten Kriminalität?’, 2000.
Studientagung für Polizeibeamte, Richter, Staatsanwälte und Interessierte: ‘Geldwäsche, Gewinnabschöpfung und Zeugenschutz: Wege zur Bekämpfung der Organisierten Kriminalität? — Ein europäischer Vergleich’, Katholische Akademie Trier, March 3-4 and December 13: ‘Die Mafia in Italien: Ihre Geschäfte und ihre Gewinne’, and ‘Gewinnabschöpfung und Zeugenschutz als wirksame Waffen zur Bekämpfung der Organisierten Kriminalität in Italien’, 2000.
Sonderprogramm der Hochschule für Polizei Baden-Württemberg, Villingen-Schwenningen, May 16: ‘Die italienische Mafia: Paradigma oder Spezialfall der organisierten Kriminalität?’, 2000.
Daedalus Conference on Italy, European University Institute, Florence, July 13-15: ‘Crime and Illegality: Is Italy a Special Case?’, 2000.
High-Level Political Signing Conference for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Ancillary Meeting: ‘Prevention Strategies against Organized Crime: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations’, Palermo, December 12: ‘The Italian Experience’, 2000.
Seminare am Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, January 26: ‘Die italienische Mafia: Paradigma oder Spezialfall der organisierten Kriminalität?’, 1999.
Conferenza: ‘La costituzione italiana a cinquant’anni dalla sua entrata in vigore’, Sala del Consiglio Comunale, Prato, February 8: ‘Il movimento antimafia’, 1999.
Sonderprogramm der Hochschule für Polizei Baden-Württemberg, Villingen-Schwenningen, April 29: ‘Die italienische Mafia’, 1999.
Internationale Analytikertagung, Ausbildungsstätte der Deutschen Bundesbank, Eltville, May 9:  ‘OK-Verteidigungsstrategien und Schwierigkeiten bei wissenschaftlichen und polizeilichen Analysen’, 1999.
Colloque: ‘Influence, puissance: quelle stratégies pour le XXIe siècle?’, Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale, Paris, October 22: ‘Les Mafias’, 1999.
Seminare der Polizeiführungsakademie, Münster, January 29-30: ‘Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Aspekte der organisierten Kriminalität’, 1998.
Multidisciplinary Group on Organized Crime, with Attendance of Leading Academic Experts on Organized Crime, Council of the European Union, Brussels, May 18: ‘UN Activities and Projects in the Fight against Organized Crime’, 1998.
International Conference on ‘Responding to the Challenges of Transnational Crime’, Courmayeur, September 25-26: ‘The Paradoxes of Organized Crime’, 1998.
American University, Washington, DC, February 27: ‘Italian Organized Crime’, 1997.
‘Joint Pompidou Group/UNDCP Project Training Seminar: Reaching and Researching Non-Treatment Populations’, Bratislava, November 17-20: ‘Rapid Assessment Methods’, and ‘Qualitative Studies on Drug Use’, 1997.
Seminar for Intelligence Analysts, Georgetown University Conference Centre, Washington, DC, February 26: ‘Italian Organized Crime Abroad: A Real Threat?’, 1996.
Reports
(with Carsten Schäfer) Drogen und Strafverfolgung: Die Anwendung des §31a BtMG und anderer Opportunitätsvorschriften auf Drogenkonsumentendelikte. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 2006.
Project to Describe and Analyse Local Drug Markets — First Phase Final Report: Illegal Drug Markets in Frankfurt and Milan. Lisbon: EMCDDA, 2000.
Illegal Drug Trade in Russia. Freiburg: Edition iuscrim, 2000.
(with Pino Arlacchi and Antonella Ruggieri) Il mercato dell'eroina a Reggio Emilia e provincia nel 1991-92. Reggio Emilia: Amministrazione Provinciale di Reggio Emilia, 1992.