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Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Christoph Wronka
Unknown
2
Dattatray Vishnu Kute
UNSW Sydney
3
Lukasz Bednarski
Stockholm Resilience Centre
4
Jack Nicholls
University College Dublin
5
Liyi Zhou
Imperial College London
6
Shai Farber
The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College
7
Laura Ross Blume
University of Nevada, Reno
8
Nasir Sultan
University of Gujrat
9
Diego Cagigas
Universidad de Cantabria
10
Shawn Davies
Uppsala University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Trauma, truth, and testimony: analysing terrorism survivors’ victim impact statements
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
152 cit.
2
Organized violence 1989–2023, and the prevalence of organized crime groups
Journal of Peace Research|2024
133 cit.
3
Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims
Journal of Peace Research|2025
66 cit.
4
Comparing human and AI expertise in the academic peer review process: towards a hybrid approach
Higher Education Research & Development|2025
21 cit.
5
Crypto-asset regulatory landscape: a comparative analysis of the crypto-asset regulation in the UK and Germany
Journal of Asset Management|2024
20 cit.
6
Dying for Justice in Central America
NACLA Report on the Americas|2024
16 cit.
7
<scp>AI</scp> as a decision support tool in forensic image analysis: A pilot study on integrating large language models into crime scene investigation workflows
Journal of Forensic Sciences|2025
16 cit.
8
Explainable deep learning model for predicting money laundering transactions
International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems|2024
10 cit.
9
A cost-consequence analysis of the Xpert Xpress CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus test strategy for the diagnosis of influenza-like illnesses
Journal of Medical Economics|2024
8 cit.
10
Harmonizing AI and human instruction in legal education: a case study from Israel on training future legal professionals
International Journal of the Legal Profession|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Lars Ivar Hagfors
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2
Larisa Yarovaya
Anglia Ruskin University
3
Tali Oberman
Tel Aviv University
4
Wessel Reijers
Paderborn University
5
Morshed Mannan
European University Institute
6
Nacho Díaz-Castaño
Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx
7
Arthur Gervais
ETH Zurich
8
Guglielmo Tosato
California University of Pennsylvania
9
Santiago Tobón
Universidad EAFIT
10
Graham Denyer Willis
University of Cambridge

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The reaction of G20+ stock markets to the Russia–Ukraine conflict “black-swan” event: Evidence from event study approach
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance|2022
300 cit.
2
Static and dynamic connectedness between NFTs, Defi and other assets: Portfolio implication
Global Finance Journal|2022
287 cit.
3
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)|2022
210 cit.
4
An index of cryptocurrency environmental attention (ICEA)
China Finance Review International|2022
176 cit.
5
The Effects of Central Bank Digital Currencies News on Financial Markets
Technological Forecasting and Social Change|2022
171 cit.
6
Rethinking financial contagion: Information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money|2022
168 cit.
7
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks
Unknown Journal|2023
162 cit.
8
Herding behavior in conventional cryptocurrency market, non-fungible tokens, and DeFi assets.
Finance research letters|2022
133 cit.
9
Volatility and return connectedness of cryptocurrency, gold, and uncertainty: Evidence from the cryptocurrency uncertainty indices
Finance research letters|2022
119 cit.
10
The Reaction of G20+ Stock Markets to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict ‘Black-Swan’ Event: Evidence From Event Study Approach
SSRN Electronic Journal|2022
90 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Todd Sandler
The University of Texas at Dallas
2
Francis T. Cullen
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement
3
David P. Farrington
Institute of Criminology
4
Robert J. Sampson
American Bar Foundation
5
Michael R. Gottfredson
University of California, Irvine
6
Alex R. Piquero
University of Miami
7
Bruce J. Arneklev
Florida Atlantic University
8
David Weisburd
Hebrew College
9
Kenneth C. Land
Social Science Research Council
10
Ernesto Schargrodsky
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy
Science|1997
11.9k cit.
2
A General Theory of Crime
Stanford University Press eBooks|1990
6.4k cit.
3
Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory
American Journal of Sociology|1989
4.4k cit.
4
Assessing “Neighborhood Effects”: Social Processes and New Directions in Research
Annual Review of Sociology|2002
4k cit.
5
USING THE CORRECT STATISTICAL TEST FOR THE EQUALITY OF REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS
Criminology|1998
2.8k cit.
6
Crime in the Making
Crime & Delinquency|1993
2.7k cit.
7
Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods
American Journal of Sociology|1999
2.5k cit.
8
Testing the Core Empirical Implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency|1993
2.3k cit.
9
DOES CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT WORK? A CLINICALLY RELEVANT AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY INFORMED META‐ANALYSIS *
Criminology|1990
2.1k cit.
10
THE EMPIRICAL STATUS OF GOTTFREDSON AND HIRSCHI'S GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME: A META‐ANALYSIS
Criminology|2000
2k cit.

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