Gabriele Baratto

2019 - PhD (cum laude) in International Studies (area: criminology), Doctoral School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy

2013 - Master Degree in law (magna cum laude), Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Italy

2006 - Scientific High School Diploma, Liceo Scientifico “Giorgio Dal Piaz”, Feltre (BL), Italy

[Last update: February 2024]

Teaching @UniTrento

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Masters (LL.M)

Academic specialist | LL.M.  in Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and International Law | United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) - United Nations University  for Peace (UPEACE) - CSSC

Guest lectures (abroad)

• 30 November 2023. Universidade da Coruña - Facultade de Dereito. Grado en Derecho, course "Criminal Law - Special Part". Title (lecture): AI, Image-Based Sexual Abuse and Gender Violence. 
• 28 November 2023. Universidade da Coruña - Facultade de Dereito. Grado en Derecho, course "Criminal Law - Special Part". Title (lecture): From the Sicilian fields to artificial intelligence: the evolution of the mafia and the anti-mafia system. 
• 20 June 2018. Franklin University (American University Switzerland, Lugano). Course “Criminology”. Title (lecture): Crime and ICT.
• 20 June 2017. Franklin University (American University Switzerland, Lugano). Course “Criminology”. Title (lecture): Security and information society.

Guest lectures (in Italy)

• 7 November 2023. University of Trento, School of International Studies, Master Degree in International Security Studies, course “Global Markets and Security Issues”. Title (lecture): The illegal trade of medicines.  
• 31 March 2023. CAIT - University of Verona - University of Trieste - University of Udine - [...]. Master in "law of foreigners" (Corso di formazione in diritto degli stranieri). Title (lecture): "Il diritto penale dello straniero come diritto d’autore? Spunti per un’analisi sociologica e criminologica del diritto penale dello straniero: i fenomeni criminali che coinvolgono i migranti quali vittime e quali autori di reato; immigrazione e integrazione nel contesto della prevenzione del crimine. Reati “culturalmente orientati”: compatibilità dell’eventuale condanna con la finalità rieducativa della pena ex art. 27 Cost.” (EN: "Criminal law of the foreigner as "author law"? Hints for a sociological and criminological analysis of the criminal law of the foreigner: the criminal phenomena involving migrants as victims and as perpetrators of crime; immigration and integration in the context of crime prevention. "Culturally oriented" crimes: compatibility of any conviction with the re-educational purpose of the sentence pursuant to art. 27 of the Constitution".
• 11 November 2022. University of Trento, School of International Studies, Master Degree in International Security Studies, course “Global Markets and Security Issues”. Title (lecture): The illegal trade of medicines.  
• 21 December 2021. University of Torino, Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Bachelor degree in Professional Education, course “Sociology”. Title (lecture): Criminologia e sociologia della devianza (EN: Criminology and sociology of deviance).
• 19 November 2021. University of Trento, School of International Studies, Master Degree in International Security Studies, course “Global Markets”. Title (lecture): The illegal trade of medicines.
• 21 May 2021. University of Torino, Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Bachelor degree in Professional Education, course “Sociology”. Title (lecture): Criminologia e sociologia della devianza (EN: Criminology and sociology of deviance).
• 11 December 2020. Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan), Master for public and private security professionals (Corso di Formazione per Professionisti della Sicurezza Pubblica e Privata). Title (guest): Criminology and security (modules e and f) - ID thefts and frauds / social media and security.
• 4 December 2020. Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan), Master for public and private security professionals (Corso di Formazione per Professionisti della Sicurezza Pubblica e Privata). Title (guest): Criminology and security (modules c and d) - Counterfeiting / online illegal trades.
• 9 October 2020. Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan), Master for public and private security professionals (Corso di Formazione per Professionisti della Sicurezza Pubblica e Privata). Title (guest): Criminology and security (modules a and b) - Cigarette smuggling / predictive policing.
• 4 November 2020. University of Trento, School of International Studies, Master Degree in International Security Studies, course “Global Markets”. Title (lecture): The illegal trade of medicines.
• 13 November 2019. University of Trento, School of International Studies, Master Degree in International Security Studies, course “Global Markets”. Title (lecture): Title (lecture): The illegal trade of medicines.
• 26 July 2019. University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Science, EIT Digital Summer School “Digital Cities as infrastructures for Smart Mobility (DCSM2019)”. Title (guest lecture): eCriminology.
• 18 March 2019. University of Trento, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Master Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, course “Design for social inclusion”. Title (guest lecture): eCriminology - Multidisciplinary applied research to fight against crime, and to support victims.
• 8-9 November 2018. University of Trento, School of International Studies, Master Degree in International Security Studies, course “Global Markets”. Titles (lectures): The illegal trade of medicines / Migrant smuggling.
• 14 July 2017. University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Science, EIT Digital Summer School “Cybersecurity and Privacy 2017 (CSP2017)”. Title (guest lecture): eCrime - From theory to practice.
• 8 November 2016. Università di Ferrara, Department of Medicine and Surgery Bachelor degree in Professional Education, course “Sociology”. Title (lecture): Il farmaco che uccide: la falsificazione dei medicinali (EN: The medicine that kills: the falsification of pharmaceuticals).
• 7 July 2016. University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Science, EIT Digital Summer School “Security and Privacy in Digital Life (SPDL)”. Title (guest lecture): How organised crime does business thanks to the ICT
• a.y. 2014/2015. Università di Ferrara, Deparment of Medicine and Surgery Beachelor degree in Professional Educations, course “Sociology”. Title (lecture): Criminalità organizzata e traffico illecito di medicinali (EN: Organised crime and the online trade of falsified medicines).
• a.y. 2014/2015. Università di Ferrara, Department of Medicine and Surgery Bachelor degree in Professional Education, course “Sociology”. Title (lecture): Criminali razionali e il commercio di farmaci falsificati (EN: Rational offenders and the online trade of falsified medicines).

Teaching - international institutes

• 05 May 2021. Course “Prevention and fight against terrorism and subversion”, International School of Higher Education for the prevention and the fight against Organised Crime. Title (lecture module): Violent extremism on social media.
• 26 April 2021. Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Transnational Crime and Justice 2020/2021 - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). Title (lecture): Transnational Organised Crime.
• 10 November 2020. Course “Understanding and Preventing Violent Extremism: programs and methods”, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) & University of Siena. Title (lecture): Understanding violent extremism - A focus on hate speech and hate crime.
• 30 November 2017. United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). Title (lecture): Organised crime in cyberspace - Case studies on migrant smuggling, human trafficking and falsified medicines.

Training - international and national institutions

• 16-17 May 2023. Training course for police officers on innovative investigative techniques and strategies to combat human trafficking organised by the Trento Public Prosecutor Office (project BIGOSINT). Place: Trento (IT). Title (lecture/seminar): Tratta di esseri umani e società digitale (EN: Human trafficking and the digital society). 
• 22 March 2019. EU training speech in the context of “Operation OPSON” (EUROPOL). Place: Den Haag (NL). Title (training speech): The contribution of the academia in the fight against food counterfeiting.
• 14 May 2019. 1-day training seminar for the cadets of the Guardia di Finanza (“Alpine Scholl of the Guardia di Finanza”). Place: Predazzo, (IT). Title (training lectures): Il ruolo di Intenret nella tratta di esseri umani e il traffico di migranti e richiedenti asilo / Il contrabbando di sigarette (EN: The role of the iInternet in human smuggling and people smuggling / Cigarettes smuggling).
• 16 February 2016. Training lecture to the cadets of the Guardia di Finanza (“Alpine Scholl of the Guardia di Finanza”). Place: Predazzo, (IT). Title (lecture): La tratta di esseri umani e il traffico di migranti e richiedenti asilo  (EN: Human trafficking and people smuggling).

Other training activities

•  9 June 2023. Training event “Il ruolo degli enti locali e della comunità nel contrasto ai fenomeni criminali” (EN: “The role of local entities and community in the fight against criminal phenomena”) - Municipality of Cento. Place: Cento (IT) Title (lecture/seminar): La sicurezza urbana integrata (EN: Integrated urban security).
• 10 February 2023. Training event on people smuggling for Emergency Volunteers. Place: Perugia (IT). 
• 9 September 2022. Training course on human trafficking (Project InVisibile). Place: Bologna (IT) - “Regione Emilia-Romagna” Headquarters. Title (lecture/seminar): Pandemia e tratta: tra digitalizzazione e legislazione (EN: Pandemic and trafficking: between digitization and legislation). 
• 28 April 2022. Training course on trafficking and exploitation “HTH LIGURIA 3 - Hope This Helps”. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (lecture/seminar): Il punto sullo sfruttamento indoor e il ruolo della rete. Lo sviluppo dopo la pandemia (EN: The situation concerning indoor exploitation and the role of new technologies. Development after the pandemic).
• 8 November 2021. Training course “FREE2LINK - Definizioni, case studies e strumenti per il contrasto dell’e-trafficking” (EN: Definitions, case studies and tools for combatting e-Trafficking). Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (lecture): Una panoramica criminologica sulla digitalizzazione della tratta di esseri umani (EN: A criminological overview on the digitalisation of human trafficking).
• 16 June 2021. Training course "Trafficking and Re-Trafficking Prevention" - Andreia Project. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (lecture/seminar): The role of the Internet and new technologies in human trafficking.
• 14 April 2021. Training seminar for the parents of the Primary/Secondary School Institute of Pedavena (IT). Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (seminar): Bullismo e cyberbyllismo: dall’analisi criminologica alle misure di prevenzione e di contrasto (EN: Bullying and cyberbulling: from the criminological analysis to counteractions and prevention measures).
• 12 April 2021. Training seminar for the teachers for the Primary/Secondary School Institute of Pedavena (IT). Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (seminar): Bullismo e cyberbyllismo: dall’analisi criminologica alle misure di prevenzione e di contrasto (EN: Bullying and cyberbulling: from the criminological analysis to counteractions and prevention measures).
• 14 and 21 December 2020. Training seminars for the students of the “P. F. Calvi” high school in Belluno (IT). Titles (lectures/seminars): Cyberbullismo e pornografia non consensuale (EN: Cyberbullying and non-consensual pornography).
• 21 October 2020. Training seminar for the high-school teachers of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (IT). Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (training seminar): Cyberbullismo (EN: Cyberbulling.
• 31 January 2020. Training seminar for the students of the “U. Follador - A. De Rossi” high school in Falcade (IT). Title (lecture/seminar): Internet e nuove tecnologie - Opportunità e rischi (EN: The internet and ICT - Opportunities and risks).
• 13 September 2018. Training seminar “HTC LIGURIA”. Place: Genova (IT). Title (lecture): The role of the internet in people smuggling and human trafficking.

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Member of the Italian Society of Criminology of the European Society of Criminology. 

Best workshop presentation - 2018 National Congress of the Italian Society of Criminolgy

Title of the awarded presentation: Relazioni violente tra giovani in internet: conoscere cyber-bulli e cyber-vittime grazie alla ricerca quali-quantitativa. 

Participation as speaker (last update: february 2024):

• 20 October 2023. National conference: 36th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Genere, cultura e criminalità” (EN: Gender, culture and crime). Place: Siena (IT). Plenary session. Title (speech/presentation): Transizione digitale e violenza di genere: la deepfake pornography (EN: Digital transition and gender violence: deepfake pornography).
• 20 October 2023. National conference: 36th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Genere, cultura e criminalità” (EN: Gender, culture and crime). Place: Siena (IT). Plenary session. Title (speech/presentation): Donne vittime di tratta: le differenti politiche degli Stati membri dell’UE sulla prostituzione e le loro implicazioni sui diritti delle donne (EN: Women victims of trafficking: the different policies of the EU Member States on prostitution and their implications on women’s rights).
• 22 September 2023. National conference: Giornate di studio "Le transizioni e il diritto" (EN: Study days "Transitions and the law"). Title (speech/presentation): La deepfake pornography: tra criminologia e diritto (Deepfake pornography: between criminology and law).
• 21 September 2023. International conference: Giornate di studio "Le transizioni e il diritto" (EN: Study days "Transitions and the law"). Title (speech/presentation): La protezione dell’identità nella società digitale: considerazioni criminologiche e giuridiche (Protecting identity in the digital society: criminological and juridical considerations).
• 7 September 2023. International conference: 23rd Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “The Renaissance of European Criminology. Place: Florence (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Movida: from media representantion to perception of urban disorder. The case study of Trento (Italy).
• 6 September 2023. International conference: 23rd Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “The Renaissance of European Criminology. Place: Florence (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Human trafficking in the digital society: state of the art, theoretical perspectives and future directions.
• 16 June 2023. National conference: XXII Edizione Delle Giornate Tridentine Di Retorica - "Il diritto come cura. L'esperienza delle cliniche legali nella prospettiva della retorica forense" (EN: XXII Edition of the Tridentine Rhetoric Days - "Law as a cure. The experience of legal clinics in the perspective of forensic rhetoric"). Title (speech/presentation):  L'esperienza della criminologia (The experience of criminology).
• 24 March 2023. National conference: Crimini economici-finanziari: analisi e contrasto del fenomeno (EN: Economic and financial crime: analysing and combating the phenomenon). Place: Treviso (IT).  Title (speech/presentation):  Crimini economici-finanziari e società digitale (Economic and financial crime and digital society).
• 10 November 2022. International Conference: Protection of victims of Human trafficking: grounding in consolidated experiences to address new challenges. Place: Torino (IT).  Title (speech/presentation):  The digitalization of human trafficking.
• 12 October 2022. National conference: Prevenzione e gestione del sovraindebitamento. Presupposti e procedura: dalla ristrutturazione dei debiti del consumatore alla liquidazione controllata (EN: Prevention and management of over-indebtedness. Assumptions and procedure: from the restructuring of the consumer's debts to controlled liquidation). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation):  Test di autovalutazione del rischio da sovraindebitamento (EN: Over-indebtedness risk self-assessment test).
• 7 October 2022. National conference: 35th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Relazioni virtuali, vittime reali” (EN: Virtual relations, real victims). Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Il commercio del sesso nella società digitale (EN: Sex commerce in digital society).
• 18 June 2022. International Conference: “Countering Hate Speech in Media”. Place: Istanbul (TR). Title (speech/presentation): Monitoring, analyzing, and tackling online hate speech.
• 24 November 2021. International conference in the context of “Operation Aphrodite” (EUROPOL). Place: Den Haag (NL), remote participation due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): The role of social media in the illegal trade of medicines.
• 17 November 2021. International conference: “2021 Anti-Counterfeiting Virtual Research Symposium”, organised by Underwriters Laboratories (USA). Featured speaker and round table participant. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): The illegal trade of medicines on social media. Title (round-table): Counterfeit products and social media.
• 20 September 2021. International conference: “Best Practices against Islamophobia”. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): The experience of the University of Trento - Project Hatemeter.
• 7 July 2021. International workshop: “Online identity theft - best practices workshop”. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation n.1): “The Irish experience on law enforcement and monitoring”. Title (speech/presentation n.2): “The Irish experience on victim support and protection”.
• 11 June 2020. National seminar: “Quando il bullismo è cyber” (EN: When bulling is cyber). Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): Cyberbullismo - La prospettiva criminologica (EN: Cyberbulling - The criminological perspective).
• 21-22 November 2019. International workshop: “Technical meeting on e-commerce controls system”, jointly organised by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural Food and Forestry Policies/ICQRF and the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety. Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech/presentation): The role of academia in preventing and fighting food fraud.
• 20 November 2019. Seminar: “Codice rosso: una novità legislativa non priva di criticità” (EN: The so-called “red code”: a novel law with some critical pointes). Place: Rovereto (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Nuove tecnologie e pornografia non consensuale (EN: New technlogies and non-consensual pornography).
• 25 October 2019. National conference: 33rd Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Dal rischio al crimine” (EN: From risk to crime). Place: Modena (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Hatemeter:misurare e combattere l’islamofobia online attraverso l’uso di strategie e contro-narrative intelligenti (EN: Hatemeter: measuring and fighting online islamophobia through intelligent strategies and counter-narratives).
• 20 September 2019. International conference: 19th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Convergent roads, bridges and new pathways in criminology”. Place: Ghent (BE). Title (speech/presentation): Hate speech against Muslims on social media - evidence from project Hatemeter.
• 21 August 2019. International conference: 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association - “Europe and beyond: boundaries, barriers and belonging”. Place: Manchester (UK). Title (speech/presentation): Hate speech against Muslims on social media in Italy and the United Kingdom - Evidence from European project Hatemeter.
• 20 June 2019. International conference: 7th Migration Conference. Place: Bari (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Hate speech against Muslims on social media in Italy - Evidence from the European project Hatemeter.
• 11 May 2019. TEDx: “BE SAFE! La sicurezza a 350°” (EN: BE SAFE! Security at 350°). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech): Sicurezza social (EN: “Social” security).
• 19-20 February 2019. International conference in the context of the Operation IOS kick-off meeting (EUROPOL). Place: Den Haag (NL). Title (speech/presentation, 19 February): IPR Infringements and the illegal trade of dangerous products. Chair and moderator of the workshop (20 February) with academics, representatives of LEAs and private industries titled: Tailoring academic activities on the needs of the public and private sectors.
• 19 October 2018. National conference: 32nd Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Relazioni violente” (EN: Violent relationships). Place: Catanzaro (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Relazioni violente tra giovani in internet - Conoscere cyber-bulli e cyber-vittime grazie alla ricerca quali-quantitativa (EN: Violent relationships between young people on the internet - Knowing cyber-bullies and cyber-victims thanks to qualitative-quantitative research).
• 8 October 2018. National seminar: “Fuori campo: Confini” (EN: Out of scope: borders). Place: Milan (IT). Title (speech): Trafficanti social (EN: Social traffickers).
• 26 October 2017. National conference: “La sicurezza urbana tra ordinanze, regolamenti di polizia locale e nuovi poteri dei Sindaci” (EN: “Urban security between ordinances, local police regulations and new powers of the Mayors”). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentantion): Sicurezza urbana oggettiva e percezione di insicurezza - Una prospettiva criminologica (EN: “Objective” urban security and perception of insecurity - A criminological perspective).
• 21 September 2017. International conference: Cybersecurity Management Challenges Symposium 2017. Place: Lugano (CH). Title (speech/presentation): Cybercrime and health.
• 20 September 2017. International conference: “Europol IP Crime Conference - Innovative Strategies for Effective Enforcement”. Place: Antwerp (BE). Title (speech/presentation): Pharma crime and the role of academia.
• 14 July 2017. International conference: 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology - "Challenging Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Europe". Place: Cardiff (Wales, UK). Title (speech/presentation): Social smugglers - The role of the Internet in people smuggling.
• 13 April 2017. National conference/public hearing organised by the Italian Parliament (Parliamentary investigatory commission on counterfeiting, product piracy and illegal trade): “La tecnologia della tracciabilità nella lotta alla contraffazione” (EN: The traceability technology in the fight against counterfeiting). Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech): Le tecnologie anticontraffazione - Modelli, punti di forza e criticità (EN: Anticounterfeiting technologies - Models, strenghts and weaknesses).
• 29 March 2017. International conference: “Social Traffickers The role of the Internet in human trafficking and migrants’ smuggling”. Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Guidelines for LEAs and NGOs.
• 26 March 2017. National seminar (speaker and moderator): Il ruolo di internet nella tratta di esseri umani e nel traffico di migranti e richiedenti asilo (EN: The role of the Internet in people smuggling and human trafficking). Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Il ruolo di internet nel traffico di migranti e richiedenti asilo (EN: The role of the internet in the smuggling of migrants an asylum seekers).
• 3 March 2017. National conference: “Novel Psychoactive Substances –  diffusione del fenomeno, aspetti sociali, clinici, psicopatologici e nuove strategie terapeutiche” (EN: Novel Psychoactive Substances - diffusion of the phenomenon, social, clinical, psychopathological aspects and new therapeutic strategies). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Il mercato online delle NPS (EN: The online trade of NPS).
• 23 September 2016. International conference: 16th Annual Conference, European Society of Criminology - "Crime and Crime Control - Structures, Developments and Actors". Place: Münster (DE). Title (speech/presentation): Improving and sharing knowledge on the Internet role in human trafficking and people smuggling processes - Evidence from the EU project www.surfandsound.eu.
• 20-21 June 2016. International conference: “Present and future of countering pharmaceutical crime”. Place: Osnabrück (DE). Title (speech/presentation): The FAKECARE project: EU logo and technical tools.
• 17 December 2015. Internation conference: “The online trade of falsified medicinal products. Knowledge and tools from research to support institutions, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies”. Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): The EU Directive 62/2011 - Implementation and vulnerability of the EU logo.
• 11 December 2012. International conference: “The Online Trade of Fake Medicines: From Research to Action”. Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): The contribution of legal analysis: comparing regulations on online pharmacies in the EU Member States.

Guest editor - Journal "Humanities & Social Sciences Communications" (Springer Nature) - Topic: Cybercrime: human and socio-economic perspectives. 

Reviewer for national and international research journals, such as: Trends in Organised Crime; Humanities & Social Sciences Communications; Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia.  

Technical Consultant of the Public Prosecutor (Public Prosecutor Office, Trento, Anti-Mafia District Directorate) in investigations on organised crime and related offences. 

Partnern and (former AD and member of the Board of Directors) of Intellegit s.r.l., the innovative start up on security of the University of Trento (www.intellegit.it). 

Online CV: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/cv-gabriele-baratto-phd/