Giulia Berlusconi is currently attending the International Ph.D. in Criminology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and is research assistant at Transcrime (Milan office).
From January to June 2012, she was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Irvine, where she collaborated with Prof. George Tita.
In September 2010 she received a Master's degree in Applied Social Science, specializing in Crime and Security, from the Faculty of Sociology of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan with a dissertation on "Organized crime and network analysis: Theories and applications in arrest warrants against the 'ndrangheta". (Criminalità organizzata e network analysis: Teorie e applicazioni in due ordinanze di custodia cautelare contro la 'ndrangheta"). In 2008 she graduated from the Università di Bologna, Forlì campus, with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Criminal Sciences.
Her fields of interest include organized crime, social network analysis and quantitative methods.
Publications Articles in academic journals
Berlusconi G. 2013. "
Do All the Pieces Matter? Assessing the Reliability of Law Enforcement Data Sources for the Network Analysis of Wire Taps",
Global Crime 14 (1): 61-81.
Chapters in edited booksSavona, E.U. and G. Berlusconi. 2011. "Maritime Piracy in Somalia: Developing New Situational Prevention Techniques". In: J.T. Picarelli (ed.),
International Organized Crime: The African Experience. Milan: ISPAC, 45-57.
Other publications
Berlusconi G. 2012. "Piracy, History of". In: M.E. Beare (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice, London: SAGE Publications.
Book reviews
Berlusconi, G. 2011. "
Ekblom, Paul: Crime Prevention, Security and Community Safety using the 5Is Framework".
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 17 (3): 249-251.
Berlusconi, G. 2013. "
Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories by Federico Varese".
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 19 (1): 65-67.