Prof Vincenzo Ruggiero

Selected publications

Authored books

• Ruggiero, V. (2022), Critical Criminology Today: Counter-Hegemonic Essays, London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2021), Violenza politica. Visioni e immaginari, Rome: DeriveApprodi.
• Ruggiero, V. (2020), Visions of Political Violence, London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), Los crimenes de la economia, Madrid: Marcial Pons.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), Dirty Money. On Financial Delinquency, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), Power and Crime, London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), Perché i potenti delinquono, Milan: Feltrinelli.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), The Crimes of the Economy: A Criminological Analysis of Economic Thought, London: Routledge
• Ruggiero, V. (2011), Il delitto, la legge, la pena, Turin: Gruppo Abele
• Ruggiero, V. (2010), Penal Abolitionism, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Ruggiero, V. (2006), Understanding Political Violence, London/New York: Open University Press/McGraw Hill.
• Ruggiero, V. (2005), Crimini dell'immaginazione. Devianza e letteratura, Milan: Il Saggiatore.
• Ruggiero, V. (2003), Crime in Literature: Sociology of Deviance and Fiction, London: Verso.
• Ruggiero, V. (2001), Movements in the City: Conflict in the European Metropolis, New York: Prentice Hall.
• Ruggiero, V. (2000), Crime and Markets: Essays in Anti-Criminology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited books

• Ruggiero, V. (2020), Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks, London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. and Ryan, M. (2013), Punishment in Europe: A Critical Anatomy of Penal Systems, London: Palgrave.
• Ruggiero, V. and Gounev, P. (2012), Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe: Illegal Partneships, London: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. and Ruggeri, F. (2009), Potere e Violenza, Milan: Franco Angeli
• Ruggiero, V. and Montagna, N. (2008), Social Movements: A Reader, London: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. and Ponsaers, P. (2002), Economic and Financial Crime in Europe, Paris: L'Harmattan.

Articles and chapters in books

• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'La criminalità dei potenti', in Pitch, T. (ed), Devianza e Questione Criminale, Rome: Carocci.
• Ruggiero, V. (2020), 'Does the Public Need Criminology?', in Henne, K. and Shah, R. (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies, New York and London: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), 'Dictatorship and State Crime', in  Giovinazzo, A. et al (eds), Educacao e Regimes Dictatoriais: 50 Anos do Golpe Militar no Brasil, Sao Paulo: Junqueira @ Marin.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), 'Destruction and the Philosophy of Desire', in Spapens, T. et al (eds), Green Crimes and Dirty Money, London: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), 'Between Force and Consensus', in Bittle, S. et al (eds), Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful, London: Rotledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Political Violence and Crime', in Pontell, H. (ed), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, New York: Oxford University Press.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Les mafias comme acrtices de la gouvernance', in Badie, B. and Vidal, D. (eds), L'Etat du Monde, Paris: La Decouverte.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Corporate War Crimes', in McGarry, R. and Walklate, S. (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War, London: Palgrave/Macmillan.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Houses for the Poor', in Jewkes, Y. et al (eds), Handbook on Prisons (second edition), London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Clausewitz in the Boardroom', in Ruzza, S. et al (eds), Non-State Challenges in a Re-Ordered World', London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Justifying the Crimes of the Powerful', in Barak, G. (ed), The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful, London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'War and the Death of Achilles', in Walklate, S. and McGarry, R. (eds), Criminology and War, London and New York: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Préface', in Besozzi. C., Les prisons des écrivants, Vevey: Editions de l'Aire.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015),'Creative Destruction and the Economy of Waste', in Sollund, R. (ed), Green Harm and Crimes, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Green Criminology and Dirty Collar Crime' (with N. South), in White, R. (ed), Green Criminology , London: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Criminals and Service Providers: Cross-National Dirty Economies', in Sheptycki, J. (ed), Transnational Organised Crime, London: Sage
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Mark Twain and the Corruption of a Town', in Jacobsen, M.H. (ed), The Poetics of Crime, Farnham: Ashgate.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Thomas Mathiesen: Activism as an Exercise of Public Intellect', in T. Mathiesen, The Politics of Abolitionism Revisited, London: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Criminalizing War: Criminology as Ceasefire', in Jamieson, R. (ed), The Criminology of War, Farnham: Ashgate.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Penal Abolitionism', in Bruinsma. G. and Weisburd D. (eds), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, New York: Springer.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Drug Economics: A Fordist Model of Criminal Capital?', in MacGregor, S. and Thom, B. (eds), Drug and Alcohol Studies, London: Sage.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Criminalidad economica, poder y criminologia publica, Derecho Penal, II (4): 366-374.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Organised and Transnational Crime in Europe', in Body-Gendrot et al (eds), The Handbook of European Criminology, London: Routledge.
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'A Sociological Analysis of Imprisonment in Fiction', in Cheliotis, L. (ed), The Arts of Imprisonment, Farnharm: Ashgate
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'Illicit Economies and the Carceral Social Zone', in Squires, P. and Lea, J. (eds), Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality, Bristol: Policy Press.
• Ruggiero, V. (2011), 'An Abolitionist View of Restorative Justice', International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 39: 100-110.
• Ruggiero, V. (2010), 'Unintended Consequences: Changes in Organised Drug Supply in the UK', Trends in Organized Crime, 13: 46-59.
• Ruggiero, V. (2010), 'Armed Struggle in Italy: The Limits to criminology in the Study of Political Violence', British Journal of Criminology, 50: 708-24.
• Ruggiero, V. (2009), 'Illegal Activity and Migrant Acculturation', International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 37: 39-50.
• Ruggiero,V. (2008), 'Privitazing International Conflict', Social Justice, 34:132-147.
• Ruggiero, V. (2008), 'Causation Theories and Concepts of Organized Criminal Behaviour', in Shanty, F.G. (ed), Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
• Ruggiero, V. (2007), 'South Asian Criminal Enterprise in the UK', in Broadhurst, R. and Ganapathy, N. (eds), Organised Crime in Asia: Governance and Accountability, Singapore: National University of Singapore.
• Ruggiero, V. (2007), 'Securite et criminalite economique', in Kokoreff, M., Peraldi, M. and Weinberger, (eds), Economies criminelles et mondes urbains, Paris : Presses Universitaires de  France.
• Ruggiero, V. (2005), 'UN Convention against Organised Crime', in Bhaskar, C.U. et al (eds), United Nations: Multilateralism International Security, New Delhi: Institute for Defence Studies Analyses.
• Ruggiero, V. (2004), 'I vuoti delle politiche di sicurezza', in Selmini, R. (ed), La sicurezza urbana, Bologna: Il Mulino.
• Ruggiero, V. (2003), 'From Fordist-Type Criminals to Criminality Just-in-Time', in Shapland, J. et al (eds), The Informal Economy: Threat and Opportunity in the City, Freiburg: Max Planck Institute.

Refereed articles

• Ruggiero, V. (2023), 'Criminology against War', Justice, Power and Resistance, doi.org/10.1332/TGBW8348
• Ruggiero, V. (2023), 'State Crime', Krimilologisches Journal, 55 (1); 53-63.
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Movimento per la decrescita e prevenzione della criminalita', Studi sulla Questione Criminale, XVIII (3): 7-26.
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Returning Migrants and Global Reparation', Qeios, 5, doi:10.32388/DTDOZ7.
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Social Democratic Criminology' (with W. Morrison, J. Phoenix and R. Reiner), British Journal of Criminology, doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac022.
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Time and Symbols in the Contentious City', City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2048481.
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Sustainability and Financial Crime', International Criminology, doi.org/10.1007/s43576-022-00052-3 (free access).
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Political Violence and Behavioural Economics', Social Justice, 48 (1): 105-122.
• Ruggiero, V. (2021), 'The Degrowth Movement and Crime Prevention', Crime, Law and Social Change, doi.org/10.1007/s10611-021-10003-0.
• Ruggiero, V. (2021), 'Justificatory Narratives: The Collapse of Greensill Capital', International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2019.
• Ruggiero, V. (2021), 'Concepts for the Revitalisation of Critical Criminology', The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 60 (3): 290-303. DOI: 10.1111.hojo.12407
• Ruggiero, V. (2021), 'The Crimes of the Powerful: Between Force and Consensus, Social Sciences, 10 (51), doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020051
• Ruggiero, V. (2020), 'Covid-19, Crime and Inequality', The Internet Journal of Criminology, (free access)
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• Ruggiero, V. (2020), 'Killing Environmental Campaigners', Criminological Encounters, 3(1), DOI 10.26395/CE20030101
• Ruggiero, V. (2020), 'Hypotheses on the Causes of Financial Crime', Journal of Financial Crime, 27 (1): 245-257, DOI 10.1108/JFC-02-2019-0021
• Ruggiero, V. (2019), 'Front-Line Practitioners versus Received Theories of Crime and Terrorism', International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2019.02.002
• Ruggiero, V. (2019), 'Hybrids: On the Crime-Terror Nexus', International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 43 (1): 49-60.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), 'Fiction, War and Criminology', Criminology & Criminal Justice, 18 (5): 604-616.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Political Violence: A Typology', Criminological Studies, 5: 43-63.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), ‘The Radicalization of Democracy: Conflict, Social Movements and Terrorism, Critical Criminology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9373-8)
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Networks of Greed', Justice, Power and Resitance, 2: 3-23.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), Paul Nizan: Conspiracy and the Contemplation of Crime', Crime Media Culture, 12(1): 3-15.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Social Harm and the Vagaries of Financial Regulation in the UK', International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 4 (4): 91-105.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Balzac and the Crimes of the Powerful', Societies, 5: 325-338.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Organised Crime in Europe and the Mafia Method', European Police Science and Research Bulletin, 13: 15-21.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Ethics and the Crimes of the Powerful', The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54 (1): 42-56.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Thinking Lampedusa: Border Construction, the Spectacle of Bare Life and the Productivity of Migrants' (with N. Dines and N. Montagna), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (3): 430-445.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'The Legacy of Abolitionism', Champ Pénal/Penal Field, XII: 1-14.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Utopian Action and Participatory Disputes', Social Justice, 41 (3): 89-106.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Financial Crime After the Crisis in the UK', Archivos de Criminologia, Seguridad Privada y Criminalistica, V: 1-16.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'European Transnational Organised Crime', Social Scientist, 10:15-20.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Droghe illecite e successione etnica nel Regno Unito', Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, LV (2): 363-384.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Corruzione e crimine organizzato', Rivista Italiana di Diritto e Procedura Penale, LVII (2) 695-704.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'L'ipertesto di Alessandro Baratta', Studi sulla Questione Criminale, IX: 23-28.
• Ruggiero, V.(2013), 'Crime and Punishment in Classical and Libertarian Utopias', The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52 (4): 414-432.
• Ruggiero, V. and South, N. (2013), 'Green Criminology and the Crimes of the Economy: Theory, Research and Praxis', Critical Criminology, DOI 10.1007/s10612-013-9191-6
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'How Public is Public Criminology?', Crime Media Culture, 82: 151-160
• Ruggiero, V. (2010), 'Green Criminology and Dirty Collar Crime', Critical Criminology, 18: 251-262.
• Ruggiero, V. (2010), 'Who Currupts Whom?', Crime, Law and Social Change, 54: 87-105.
• Ruggiero, V. (2009), 'On Liberty and Crime: Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill', Crime, Law and Social Change, 51: 435-450.
• Ruggiero, V. (2007), 'War, Crime, Empire and Cosmopolitanism', Critical Criminology, 15: 211-221.
• Ruggiero, V. (2007), 'It's the Economy, Stupid! Classifying Power Crime', International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 35 (4): 163-177.
• Ruggiero, V. and Khan, K. (2006), 'British South Asian Comm Universidadunities and Drug Supply Networks in the UK: A Qualitative Study', The International Journal of Drug Policy, 17: 473-483.
• Ruggiero, V. (2005), 'Dichotomies and Contemporary Social Movements', CITY: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 9: 281-297.
• Ruggiero, V. (2004), 'Criminalizing War': Criminology as Ceasefire', Social Legal Studies, 14 (2): 239-257.

Selected Conference papers

• Ruggiero, V. (2023), 'Jus ad Bellum for the Rich', European Group Annual Conference, Turku (Finland): 30 August - 2 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2023), 'Corporate Harm: When Crime Generates Crime', Keynote Speech, Examining the Multifaceted Harms of Corporate Crime, American Society of Criminology and European Society of Criminology (Online Conference), 20-21 April.
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'The Need for Critical Criminology', European Society of Criminology, Malaga, 21-24 September
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Drug Use Normalization and Surrealism', Nigel South Retirement Conference, Essex University, 17 June.
• Ruggiero, V. (2022), 'Green Economy and Financial Crime', Climate Change Risk, London, 21 April.
• Ruggiero, V. (2021), 'The Collapse of Greensill Capital', European Society of Criminology, 8-10 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2019), 'The Future of Abolitionism', American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, 13-16 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), 'Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks: An Empirical Research', Criminal Justuce and Security in Central Europe, Ljubljana, 25-27 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), 'Institutional Violence', European Society of Criminology, Sarajevo, 29 August - 1 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2018), 'Political Violence and Restoring Equality', European Forum on Restorative Justice, Tirana, 14-16 June.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Political Violence', British Society of Criminology and Mannheim Centre, London School of Criminology, 6 December.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Crimes without Criminals', American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, 15-18 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Political Violence: A Typology', European Policies Week, Universidad Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, 20-22 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Hybrids: On the Terror-Crime Nexus', European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, 13-16 September.
• Ruggiero, V.(2017), 'Networks of Greed', The Crimes of the Powerful, York University, Toronto, 24-25 May.
• Ruggiero, V. (2017), 'Conflict, Social Movements and Terrorism', Looking Forward: Resistance, Repression and Possibility, John Jay College, New York, 3-5 May.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Organised Crime' and 'Evolving Forms of Policing' (session chair), American Society of Criminology, 16-20 November, New Orleans.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Profit, Crime and Non-Monetary Power', European Society of Criminology, Munster, 21-24 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Power, Harm and Violence in Political , Theory', University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016),' La violencia politica', Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, 9 June.
• Ruggiero, V. (2016), 'Prisons in Europe: Houses for the Poor', Greek Ministry of Justice, Athens, 19 May.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Organised Behaviour and Organised Identity', American Society of Criminology, Washington, 18-21 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Beccaria, I Miss You', European Group Conference, Tallinn, 26-30 August.
• Ruggiero, V. (2015), 'Green Criminology and the Philosophy of Desire', Environmental Crime and Money, Tilburg, 7-8 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Policing What Crisis?', Stuart Hall Event Week, Goldsmiths College, London, 26 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Financial Crime in the UK' and Author Meets Critics: 'The Crimes of the Economy'. American Society of Criminology,San Francisco, 19-22 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Financial Crime after the Crisis', Organized Crime and its Prosecution, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, 29 October – 1 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'La criminalità finanziaria dopo la crisi', Contromafie, Rome, 24-26 October.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Dictatorship and State Crime', Educacao e Regimes Ditatoriais, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo (Brazil), 6-9 October.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Philosophies of Punishment', opening lecture on the International MA Criminology, University of Utrecht, 8 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Migrants and Bare Life', Representing Alterity in Society in Crisis, University of Genoa, 28-31 July.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Between War Crimes and War as Crime', British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Liverpool, 10-12 July.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'The Law of Power', National Deviancy Conference, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, 25-26 June
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Organised Crime in Europe: Comparing Official Views with Independent Research', Tackling Illegal Economies (European Commission funded project), Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 4-5 June.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'The Crimes of the Economy', paper and book launch, Department of Architecture, University of Venice, 5 May.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Utopia, Crime and Punishment', opening plenary, Penal Law, Abolitionism and Anarchism, Shire Hall, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, 26-27 April.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Unintended Consequences: Changes in Drug Supply in England', Issues in Contemporary Drug and Alcohol Studies, Middlesex University, London, 20 March.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'Organised and Transnational Crime in Europe', concluding plenary speech, MA Criminology,University of Naples, 28 February.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), 'European Criminal Networks: Myth and Reality', Organised Crime and Its Prosecution, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 22-23 January.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Learning from Business: Organized Crime and the Environment' and 'The Crimes of the Economy', American Society of Criminology Conference, Atlanta (USA), 20-23 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Profili criminologici dell'infiltrazione mafiosa nell'economia', Economia e Diritto Penale nel Tempo della Crisi, University of Palermo, 15-16 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'L'ipertesto di Alessandro Baratta', Questione Criminale e Diritti: Ricordando Alessandro Baratta, University of Rome, 7-8 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Corruption, Anomie and Social Disintegration', Primer Congreso Internacional de Asuntos Internos, Los Cabos (Mexico), 23-25 October.
• Ruggiero, V. (2013), 'Business, War and Hegemony', University of Turin, 24-25 May.
• Ruggiero,V. (2013), 'Corruption and the Disappearance of the Victim', American Society of Criminology, Chicago, 13-18 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'Business as War', 40th Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, 4-9 September, University of Nicosia (Cyprus).
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'Justice, Law and Punishment', International Conference on Penal Abolitionism, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 12-15 June.
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'Fragments of Anti-Criminology', Public Lecture, University of Palermo, 30 May.
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'Cultures of Punishment', The Poverty of Punishment, Middlesex University, 30 March.
• Ruggiero, V. (2012), 'Rehabilitation or Revenge?', British Society of Criminology, Welsh Branch, University of Cardiff, 22 February.
• Ruggiero, V. (2011), 'Economic Development: Threats and Opportunities', Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Sciences, Dubai, 22-24 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2011), 'The Philosophical Foundations of Abolitionism', Associazione Antigone, Rome, 11 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2011), 'How Public is Puiblic Criminology?', The York Deviancy Conference, York University, 29 June- 1July.
• Ruggiero, V. (2007), 'South Asian Drug Dealing Networks', Organised Crime in Asia: Governance and Accountability, National University of Singapore, 28-29 June.
• Ruggiero, V. (2006), 'Trans-nationalism and Global Illicit Economies', Government of the Shadows, University of Melbourne (Australia), 10-12 August.
• Ruggiero, V. (2006), 'Selecting the Enemy: The Violence of the Other', El Derecho del Nemico, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), 5 September.
• Ruggiero, V. (2005), 'Criminology and War', Crime et insecuriteacute;: un demi-siegrave;cle de bouleversements, University of Versailles (France), 29 September - 1 October.
• Ruggiero, V. (2004), 'Organized Criminality', V Congress of the Cuban Society for Criminal Sciences, Havana (Cuba), 11-14 November.
• Ruggiero, V. (2004), 'Risk and Corporate Crime', 6th Colloquium on Cross-Border Crime, University of Berlin, 2-4 September.
• 2008: 'Organised Crime and Drugs Trafficking', Perspectivas da Justiça Criminal, San Paulo (Brazil), 1-3 September.
• 2008: Organiser and chair of the panel 'Criminology of War and Peace' and delivery of paper 'Criminalizing War', American Society of Criminology, St. Louis (USA), 12-15 November.
• 2009: 'Crimes of the Powerful and Restorative Justice', Il Crimine dei Colletti Bianchi, Ministry of Justice, Palermo, 7 March.
• 2009: 'Organised Crime as Crime of the Powerful', Transnational Organised crime in Regional Contexts, Mexico City, 19-20 August.
• 2009: 'Green Criminology and Dirty Collar Offenders', American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, 4-7 November.
• 2010: 'Crime and Prosperity: Does Wealth Cause Crime?', paper delivered at the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Salvador (Brazil), 12-19 April.
• 2010: 'Organised Behaviour and Organised Identity', The Politics of Criminology, 38th Annual Conference of the European Group, University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece, 1-5 September.

Official reports

• Ruggiero, V. (2017), Empirical Research Report: Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks, European Commission.
• Ruggiero, V. (with R. Leyva)   (2017), Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks: Literature Exploration and Open Access Bibliography, European Commission, Horizon 2020 Project, TAKEDOWN.
• Ruggiero, V. (2014), Organised Crime and Social Responses, Turin: Libera (publication funded by the European Commission).
• Ruggiero, V. et al (2010), Corruption and Organised Crime in Europe, European Commission
• Ruggiero, V. and Khan, K. (2005), British South Asian Drug Networks, Home Office
• Ruggiero, V. and Ponsaers, P. (2002), Economic and Financial Crime in Europe, GERN, Groupement Europeen sur le Normatives, Paris.

Editorships

• Editorial board member of the 'British Journal of Criminology'.
• Editor of the book series Transnational Crime, Routledge
• Associate editor of Studi sulla Questione Criminale
• Editorial board member of Crime, Law and Social Change
• Editorial board member of the Open Criminology Journal

Honours and Prizes

• Nominated as Distinguished International Academic by the American Society of Criminology (2000).
• Received the Premio Nazionale G. Arena for the book Movements in the City (2002).
• Nominated for the Hindelang Award by the American Society of Criminology for the book Crime in Literature (2004).
• Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology (November 2016) for his contribution to critical thought in criminology.
• Received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology (Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime) for his book 'Dirty Money: On Financial Delinquency' (2019).

Languages spoken

Italian, French