Lorenzo Pasculli

Lorenzo is an Associate Professor in Crime Science and the Deputy Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at the Department of Security and Crime Science at UCL, where he teaches Organised Crime and Perspective on Organised Crime. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Nebrija (Madrid, Spain).

Lorenzo’s research focuses on the future developments in crime, crime prevention and criminal justice brought about by globalisation. Lorenzo’s research is comparative, interdisciplinary and socio-legal, as it seeks to assess the practical and social effects of laws and policies in different countries with the support of theories from various disciplines, including sociology, criminology, psychology, politics, economics, biology, genetics and neurosciences.

Lorenzo is conducting a longstanding investigation on how the law itself can more or less unintendedly enable systemic corruption using case studies from different economic sectors in various jurisdictions, such as Uganda, Australia, the UK and the US.

Prior to his appointment at UCL, Lorenzo was the Associate Head for Research at Coventry Law School, an Associate Member of the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) at Coventry University, and a Sessional Lecturer in Law at Imperial College London. He previously worked as a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University London and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Padua (Italy). He held visiting positions in many prestigious universities around the world, including University of Oxford (UK), Queen’s University Belfast (UK), Columbia University (New York, USA), Fordham University (New York, USA), University of Adelaide (Australia), Florida International University (Miami, USA), and Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi (Istanbul, Turkey).