Training activities encompass different levels:

• Master's Courses: Ph.D. candidates will attend Master's Courses aimed at completing and strengthening their background (1st year candidates). The required coursework is determined upon admission to the Programme and tailored to each candidate's curriculum. Master's Courses culminate in a final examination. Additionally, Ph.D. candidates will prepare a paper (in English) on a topic agreed upon with the Professor of the course(s).
  
  Graduate courses may include:
  • Statistics and advanced statistics
  • Criminal law and procedure (Italian and comparative)
  • Methodology of criminological research
  • Criminology and applied criminology
• Research and methodological training: Ph.D. candidates will attend specific training activities (1st and 2nd year candidates). Transcrime holds short and long seminars, which are also attended by Ph.D. candidates.
• Ph.d. courses: Ph.D. candidates will attend courses specifically organised for the Ph.D. Programme aimed at providing in-depth knowledge of specific topics (1st and 2nd year candidates). They may also attend courses organised in collaboration with other universities.
• Doctoral Training: Università Cattolica provides a number of training activities for Ph.D. candidates from all programmes. They include training on methodology, bibliographic, writing, presentation, public speaking and English for academic purposes.
• Literature review: Ph.D. cadidates, under the guidance of senior researchers, will complete a literature review(s) on a specific topic relating to the candidate’s research interests (1st year candidates).
• Lectures: Ph.D. candidates will attend intensive lectures on innovative issues in criminology and criminal justice, given by visiting professors from leading national and international universities.

Below are some examples of past lectures given by visiting professors to students attending recent Ph.D. cycles:

• Combining data and community resources to reduce crime at risky places - Prof. Joel Caplan, Rutgers University - Newark
• Economics of organized crime - Prof. Paolo Buonanno, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
• Emergence of Swedish Gangs - Prof. Manne Gerell, Malmö University
• Firearms and firearms-control policies - Prof. Philip Cook, Stanford School of Public Policy
• Green criminology - Prof. Toine Spapens, Tilburg University
• Innovative sources of data in criminology - Dr. Reka Solymosi, University of Manchester
• Life course criminology - Prof. Arijan Blokland, NSCR
• Mafias abroad / Human Smuggling - Dr. Paolo Campana, University of Cambridge
• Money-laundering, Drug policy and Organized Crime - Prof. Peter Reuter, University of Maryland
• ‘Ndrangheta outside Italy - Prof. Anna Sergi, University of Essex
• Network adaptation - Dr. Giulia Berlusconi, University of Surrey
• Organised crime and qualitative metodologies - Prof. Dina Siegel, Utrecht University
• Problem Oriented Policing: origins, development, evidence - Prof. Aiden Sidebottom, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science 
• Risk Terrain Modeling - Prof. Leslie Kennedy, Rutgers University - Newark
• The datafication revolution in criminal justice - Prof. Anita Lavorgna, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
• Wildlife crime, wildlife law enforcement, and wildlife crime/harm prevention - Prof. William Moreto, University of Central Florida

For more information see the Official brochure.