Dr Luca Giommoni
Senior Lecturer
- giommonil@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4436
- 2.13, Glamorgan Building
I am a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.
My research interests are in the areas of illicit markets, drug policy and the use of social media data to research illicit markets. In particular I am interested in how new forms of data collection (e.g. crowdsourcing, social sensing, web-scrapers and any other form of computer-mediated communication data) can be used to better understand the inner working of illicit markets and help practitioners and policy makers to develop strategies to reduce harm and improve the health of communities.
Prior to the current appointment I was a PhD candidate at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and a researcher at Trasncrime (2011-2015). From August 2013 to Febraury 2014, I was a visiting scholar at University of Maryland, College Park (MD), where I collaborated with Professor Peter Reuter. I graduated magna cum laude in Applied Social Science, specializing in Crime Sciences and Technologies for Security, at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (2011).
I welcome proposals from prospective Ph.D. students with an interest in drug policy, illicit markets, darknet markets and the use of computer-mediated communications to research crime-related problems.
Education and qualifications
2011 - 2015: PhD. (Criminology), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Italy.
2013 - 2014: Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland (MD), USA.
2009 - 2011: MSc (Applied Social Sciences), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Italy.
2011: Erasmus student, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
2005 - 2009: BSc (Criminal Investigation), Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy.
Professional memberships
- American Society of Criminology,
- European Society of Criminology,
- International Society for the Study of Drug Policy
Speaking engagements
Aziani, Berlusconi and Giommoni "Comparing the determinants of heroin and cocaine flows to Europe using a latent space model" Illicit Networks Workshop, London, UK, 7-8 December 2016.
Giommoni “Crowdsourcing Intelligence Data: An Analysis of the British Cannabis Market” National Open Source Intelligence and Investigations Conference, Hinckley Island Hotel, Leicestershire, 4 – 6 October 2016
Giommoni “Scraping the Price of Weed: An Analysis of Cannabis Price Using Open Sources”, 71st Annual conference of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC , 18 – 21 November 2015
Giommoni “As Above so Below: A Social Network Analysis of the Supply of Heroin to Europe” presented at 15th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Oporto, 2 - 5 September 2015
Décary-Hétu and Giommoni “Operation Onymous and tangible effects: displacement in the dark net drug markets” presented at 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, Ghent, 20 – 22 May 2015
Giommoni, Aziani and Berlusconi “Not All Roads Lead to Rome: A Social Network Analysis of the Opiate Trafficking along the Balkan Route” presented at 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, Ghent, 20 – 22 May 2015
Giommoni, Luca “Explaining the decline of heroin and cocaine price in the European countries: an empirical approach” presented at 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, 19th - 22rd November 2014, San Francisco, USA
Reuter Peter, Beau Kilmer and Luca Giommoni “What can be learned from cross-national comparisons of data on illegal drugs?” presented at 8th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, Rome, 21 – 23 May 2014
2020
- Giommoni, L., Gundur, R. and Cheekes, E. 2020. International drug rrafficking: past, present, and prospective trends. In: .
- Giommoni, L. 2020. Why we should all be more careful in drawing conclusions about how COVID-19 is changing drug markets. International Journal of Drug Policy
- Giommoni, L., Berlusconi, G. and Melendez-Torres, G. J. 2020. Characterising the structure of the largest online commercial sex network in the UK: observational study with implications for STI prevention. Culture, Health and Sexuality
2019
- Aziani, A., Berlusconi, G. and Giommoni, L. 2019. A quantitative application of enterprise and social embeddedness theories to the transnational trafficking of cocaine in Europe. Deviant Behavior, pp. -. (10.1080/01639625.2019.1666606)
2018
- Giommoni, L. and Gundur, R. 2018. An analysis of the United Kingdom’s cannabis market using crowdsourced data. Global Crime 19(2), pp. 85-106. (10.1080/17440572.2018.1460071)
2017
- Giommoni, L., Reuter, P. and Kilmer, B. 2017. Exploring the perils of cross national comparisons of drug prevalence: the effect of survey modality. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 181, pp. 194-199. (10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.09.027)
- Berlusconi, G., Aziani, A. and Giommoni, L. 2017. The determinants of heroin flows in Europe: A latent space approach. Social Networks 51, pp. 104-117. (10.1016/j.socnet.2017.03.012)
- Giommoni, L., Aziani, A. and Berlusconi, G. 2017. How do illicit drugs move across countries? A network analysis of the heroin supply to Europe. Journal of Drug Issues 47(2), pp. 217-240. (10.1177/0022042616682426)
- Décary-Hétu, D. and Giommoni, L. 2017. Do police crackdowns disrupt drug cryptomarkets? a longitudinal analysis of the effects of Operation Onymous. Crime, Law and Social Change 67(1), pp. 55-75. (10.1007/s10611-016-9644-4)
2016
- Calderoni, F.et al. 2016. The Italian mafias in the world: A systematic assessment of the mobility of criminal groups. European Journal of Criminology 13(4), pp. 413-433. (10.1177/1477370815623570)
- Giommoni, L. 2016. Illicit drugs market. In: Savona, E. and Riccardi, M. eds. From Illegal Markets to Legitimate Businesses: The Portfolio of Organised Crime in Europe. Transcrime, pp. 43-56.
2015
- Dugato, M., Favarin, S. and Giommoni, L. 2015. The risks and rewards of organized crime investments in real estate. British Journal of Criminology 55(5), pp. 944-965. (10.1093/bjc/azv002)
- Kilmer, B., Reuter, P. and Giommoni, L. 2015. What can be learned from cross-national comparisons of data on illegal drugs?. Crime and Justice 44(1), pp. 227-296. (10.1086/681552)
- Angelini, M.et al. 2015. Organised crime portfolio: illicit revenues and criminal investments in Europe. European Police Science and Research Bulletin 12, pp. 4-12.
- Giommoni, L. 2015. From the generation of illicit proceeds to investments in the legal economy. In: Savona, E. U. and Riccardi, M. eds. From Illegal Markets to Legitimate Businesses: The Portfolio of Organised Crime in Europe. Transcrime, pp. 144-148.
- Savona, E. U., Giommoni, L. and Mancuso, M. 2015. Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Italy. In: Leclerc, B. and Wortley, R. eds. Cognition and Crime. Offender Decision Making and Script Analyse. Crime Science Series London: Routledge, pp. 140-163.
2014
- Giommoni, L. 2014. The retail value of the illicit drug market in Italy: a consumption-based approach. Global Crime 15(1-2), pp. 27-50. (10.1080/17440572.2013.875893)
2013
- Giommoni, L. 2013. Caulkins Jonathan P., Hawken Angela, Kilmer Beau and Kleiman Mark A. R. 'Marijuana legalization: what everyone needs to know' [Book Review]. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 19(4), pp. 419-421. (10.1007/s10610-013-9217-3)
Undergraduate Teaching
- Criminolgical Practice (Yr 3)
- Foundations of Contemporary Criminology (Year 1)
- Policing: Theory, Evidence and Policy (Yr 3)
- Offending and Victimisation (Yr 2)
- Responses to Crime (Yr 2)
Postgraduate Teaching
- Responses to Crime, Safety and Justice