Dr Alice Rizzuti

Dr Rizzuti is a lecturer in Criminology at the School of Criminology, Sociology and Policing. Before joining the School, Alice worked at the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, where she completed her PhD in Criminology with a study on food crime and the involvements of organised crime and mafia-type groups in the food supply chain in England and Italy. From April 2020 to May 2021, she worked as a Research Associate for the project 'C.R.I.M.E. - Countering Regional Italian Mafias Expansion' (sponsored by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at the University of Essex and in privileged partnerships with Eurojust Italian Desk and Operations and Europol). Moreover, from July 2021 to December 2021, she worked as a Research Fellow in the N8PRP funded project ‘Tackling the Developing World of OCGs through a multiagency strategy’. Alice is currently looking into the use of digital technology (such as Blockchain) in food supply networks as well as on the intersections between food justice, food insecurity and food crimes.

Before starting her PhD, she completed a five-year degree in law at the University of Palermo (Italy) and a second-level postgraduate master (Italian qualification) in studies on corruption and organised crime at the University of Pisa (Italy).

Her expertise lies in the field of food crimes, green criminology, and environmental crimes, organised crime and mafia studies, and comparative criminology and criminal justice. Furthermore, she is interested in corporate and organisational crime.