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Raluca-Ioana MOCANU

Raluca-Ioana MOCANU

Institution: University of Bucharest

Area of Expertise: Contraband / counterfeit products, Corruption, Crime prevention and criminal justice, Criminal networks, Discourse, Drug trafficking, Extortion, Fraud, Gangs, Illicit cigarettes and tobacco, Law, Mafia, Modern slavery and human trafficking, Money laundering, Organ trafficking, Prisons, Recruitment, State control, Terrorism, Trafficking in cultural property, Wildlife and forest crime

Researcher

Dr. Raluca-Ioana Mocanu is Senior Lecturer at Criminal Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest.

She began her academic career in 2005, joining the Criminal Law Department as a Ph.D. candidate, delivering seminars mainly on Criminal Law. She defended her Ph.D. thesis on March 2010 at the University of Bucharest, on Romanian Anti-Terrorist Law.

At present, she teaches Criminal Law for Bachelor Students, and has a course `Offences related to Organised Crime` designed for Masters Programmes focusing on transnational organised crime and related offences – drug trafficking, trafficking in persons and in migrants, laundering of money, and terrorist offences.

As part of her post-doctoral research she has conducted work for numerous academic institutions:

  • During 2014/2015, being awarded the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, she joined University of Fribourg to work on a project regarding trafficking in persons.
  • During Oct/Dec. 2016, being awarded the French Government Excellence Scholarship, she joined University of Poitiers to work on a project on smuggling of migrants.
  • During July/Sept. 2017, she conducted a research-stay at Woodrow Wilson Center working on a project on self-radicalised terrorists.

Since October 2022 she has been the Vice-chair of Cost Action 21133 `Globalization, Illicit Trade, Security and Sustainability`.

She has delivered numerous presentations at national and international conferences and published several articles and studies.