Programme

(Final version)

DAY 1 – May 11, 2023

09:30 – Pre-Conference meetings [The participants who are interested in organising group meetings should ask the organizing committee for a room, by e-mail]

  • Workshop on criminal network analysis (only available to invited people)

(first day afternoon – Working language: Portuguese)

14:30 – Opening session (Noble Hall)

  • Director of the Faculty of Law, University of Porto
  • Director of the School of Criminology
  • Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice and Security (CJS)

15:00 – PLENARY SESSION I (Noble Hall)

Crime organizado? A palavra e o conceito na perspetiva de uma criminologia reticular

Cândido da Agra (Emeritus Full Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Criminology, University of Porto)

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16:15 – Coffee break

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16:30 – ROUNDTABLE WITH CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AGENTS (Noble Hall)

  • Chair: Alexandre Panda (JN)

DAY 2 – May 12, 2023

(Working language: English)

09:30 – PLENARY SESSION II (Noble Hall)

Organized crime, criminal networks and criminal careers

Edward Kleemans (Full Professor, VU School of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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10:45 – Coffee break

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11:00 – ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSIONS I

Room 202

Law and criminal policies in the age of big data and artificial intelligence I

Chair: Luz-María Puente-Aba

  1. “Predictive justice: Theoretical guidelines for its construction from Big Data to prevent corruption and organized crime in the justice system” – Maira Yadhira Duque Ramirez (University of De Los Andes, Colombia) & Solbey Morillo Puente (University of Medellin, Colombia).
  2. “Using technology to understand and explain Transnational Organized Crime” – Pedro Daniel Piedrahita Bustamante & Solbey Morillo Puente (University of Medellin, Colômbia)
  3. “Beyond the more obvious new challenges for Criminal Law: liability for criminal harms in the era of big data” – Luz-María Puente-Aba (University of A Coruña, Spain).
  4. “Lights and shadows of the UK strategy against organised crime groups” – Simone Santorso (University of Sussex, UK) & Alice Rizzuti (University of Hull, UK).

Room 203

Traffickings

Chair: Nicolas Santiago Lien

  1. “The narco brokers: intermediaries of the transnational illicit market of cocaine from South America with destination to Europe.” – Nicolas Santiago Lien (University of Córdoba, Argentina).
  2. “Illicit Trade in Cultural Property: An Overlooked Trafficking Phenomenon?” – David Castro; Cristina Fernández-Bessa & José A. Brandariz (University of A Coruña, Spain).
  3. “International Trade in Protected Species” – Gil Couto (ASAE, Portugal).
  4. “Resilience of Communities Affected by Transnational Organized Environmental Crime in the Congo Basin Forest Zone.” – Alain Bashizi; Estelle Lobe Ewoule; Benjamin Evine Binet; Miruho Hodaff & Tresor Bulambo (Congo Basin Forests Global Initiative).

Room 227

White-Collar Crimes I

Chair: Ana Raquel Conceição

  1. “Organized crime and ‘sports truth’: Theoretical approach” – Raquel Brito (Faculty of Law, University of Porto, Portugal).
  2. “Mapping money laundering control networks: the collaborative approach in the UK” – Diana Bociga (University of Manchester, UK)
  3. “Fiscal Corruption and Organized Crime in Brazil, Impressions from an Empirical Study” – Genésio Moreira Filho; Pedro Sousa & Glória Teixeira (Faculty of Law, University of Porto, Portugal).
  4. “The Portuguese Principle of Opportunity and Economic and Financial Crime: The Special Case of its Victims” – Ana Raquel Conceição & Flávia Noversa Loureiro (School of Law, University of Minho).

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Lunch break

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14:00 – ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSIONS II

Room 202

Law and criminal policies in the age of big data and artificial intelligence II

Chair: Sandra Tavares

  1. “Risks of artificial intelligence law and human rights” – Mensut Ademi; Driton Muharremi & Veton Vula (AAB College, Prishtina, Kosovo). 
  2. “Artificial Intelligence Applications in Law Enforcement Settings: New Phenomenologies and New (?) Standards for Defence Rights” – Athina Sachoulidou (NOVA School of Law, Lisbon, Portugal).
  3. “Risks of using Machine Learning to combat criminal networks” – Jakob Ebbinghaus (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany).
  4. “Artificial intelligence – risks and opportunities: a forensic perspective in the criminal procedure area” – Sandra Tavares & Cristina Correia (School of Law, Catolica University of Porto, Portugal).

Room 203

Law enforcement agencies

Chair: Sarah Schreier

  1. “Organized Crime 3.0″: New Empirical Insights on the Status Quo of Organized Crime in Germany” – Sarah Schreier & Jonas Römer (Institute of Criminology, University of Tuebingen, Germany).
  2. “Strategic Knowledge Centre on Organized and Subversive Crime: Holland’s Cooperative Hub Confronting Transnational Challenges” – Alexander Heijnen (Strategic Knowledge Center on Organized and Subversive Crime, The Netherlands).
  3. “The legal-penal figure of the “gang” as a modality of organised criminality in Portuguese Criminal Law” – Sérgio Laranjinho (Lusíada University of Lisbon, Portugal).
  4. “Crimes in Brazilian ports: data, techniques and research strategies” – Gabriel Patriarca; Isabela Vianna Pinho & Anna Clara Soares (University of São Paulo, Brazil).

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15:15 – Coffee break

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15:30 – ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSIONS III

Room 202

Cyber crimes

Chair: Rui Sousa-Silva

  1. “Uncovering Identities Online: A Forensic Linguistics Analysis for Deterring Cybercrime” – Rui Sousa-Silva (Faculty of Arts, University do Porto, Portugal)
  2. “Money Laundering Through Cryptocurrency Mixers: Exploiting Existing Weaknesses in the Anti-Money Laundering Regime’” – Elin Nia Williams (University of Liverpool, UK).
  3. “The use of Cryptocurrencies for organized crime” – Alexandra Ferreira Leite (Portugal).
  4. “Network analysis for cybercrime: Breaking down the structure of the Conti ransomware group” – Caterina Paternoster; Mirko Nazzari; Teodora Erika Uberti & Maria Jofre (University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Transcrime, Italy).

Room 203

White-Collar crimes II

Chair: Monika Bancsina

  1. “The role of corporations in acts of kleptocracy and their possible criminal liability” – Daniela Sodini (University of Alcalá, Spain).
  2. “How to Analyze “Systemic” corruption – The Case of Romania” – Monika Bancsina & Markus Pohlmann (Max-Weber Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University, Germany).
  3. “Financial Investigation of Organized Crime in Republic of Serbia” – Goran Bošković & Nenad Radović (University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia).

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17:00 – CLOSING SESSION (Noble Hall)

  • Minister for the Ministry of the Interior (*)
  • Director of the Faculty of Law, University of Porto
  • Director of the School of Criminology
  • Member of the Organizing Committee

(*) To be confirmed.

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