The aim of this research is to analyze the available statistical data on cybercrime, a new form of deviance that is expressed in the illicit use of computer and the internet, and that is characterized by unique features which are particularly difficult to prevent and suppress. Computer crime can be defined as the downside of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that has allowed us to create new scenarios in these last decades. In this context, it is therefore necessary to develop the appropriate countermeasures in order to oppose the expansion of these forms of crime: and for this purpose specific and ad hoc methodologies, practices and regulations are needed and data analysis is essential to determine the most appropriate forms of intervention.

L’analisi statistica condotta in questa indagine ha come oggetto lo studio degl’infradiciottenni (persone di età compresa fra i 14 anni e i 18 anni non compiuti) residenti nella città di Bari e presi in carico dal locale Ufficio di servizio sociale per i minorenni tra il 2007 e il 2009. Gli elementi raccolti sono stati organizzati secondo tre dimensioni informative: a) socio-demografica: sesso, età, circoscrizione di residenza, assolvi-mento degli obblighi scolastici e formativi, condizione occupazionale, impiego del tempo libero; b) giudiziaria: delitto commesso, eventuali misure reclusive, caute¬lari sostitutive e alternative; c) famigliare: composizione della famiglia; titolo di studio, condizio-ne professionale, condanne o coinvolgimenti penali dei genitori; pre-senza di altre situazioni critiche.

Nowadays, it is easy to trace a large amount of information on the web, to access documents and produce a digital storage. The current work is submitted as an introduction to an innovative system for the investigation about notoriety of web data which is based on the evaluation of judicial sentences and it is implemented to reduce the duration of all processes. This research also aims to open some new conjoint debates about the study and application of statistical and computational methods to web data on new forensics topics: text mining techniques enable us to obtain information which may be helpful to establish a statistical index in order to describe the quality and the efficiency in terms of law. It is also possible to develop an intelligent system about facts and judgments.

The excess of pollution in a territory has important negative implications on health and quality of life of residents and populations in strong and continuous contact, such as workers. The consequences that pollutants have on the population are the subject of extensive literature and research, especially in the medical and epidemiological fields and, depending on the type, may have more or less strong interactions with humans. Taranto is a city with strong industrial presence, with large installations, for productions ranging from steel (ILVA) to cement (Cementir) until petrochemical (ENI) and shipbuilding, which can be classified as pollutant sources. The main objective of this paper is to develop the mortality tables separately for the town of Taranto, as an indispensable tool for accurate analysis and comparison of the death rate in the Ionian area, doing some preliminary considerations on official data currently available, which in some cases are misaligned and suffering from errors, integrating and comparing them with the most recent and reliable data, such as post-census and Taranto’s registry office.

The reform that by Presidential Decree (13th February 2001, n. 123) introduced “telematics civil p rocedure” in Italian judicial system has the objective of a more efficient and rapid justice. The combination of justice and Information and Communications Technology is now a path to be not only in terms of functionality and cost management, but also to adjust the Italian quality standards respect to the other European states: it is shown telematics civil procedure in its architecture, in its draft implementation and benefits arising from its actual use. From the statistical point of view as an indirect measure of the judiciary evaluation, we analyze the indices of average length in the various proceedings, as the main tool for assessing the efficiency court, noting the repeated condemnations against the Italian state, by the European Court of Human Rights, for failure to comply with the principle of reasonable duration of the process, a further confirmation of the unfortunate situation that our country is facing on the topic of judicial authority.

This paper is directed to analyze the comparative legal systems and the production of statistics in the field of justice in the countries of Europe, especially during the process of gathering and processing information and in those relating to endproducts and to their functionality for the purposes of judicial decision-support policies, and to identify the characteristics of the demand for statistical information that it is required to satisfy.

The crime does not occur uniformly in time, space, type and number of committed offenses: in this review of indicators, summary measures are proposed for the necessity to know these adverse events in a statistical point of view, with the aim of promoting prevention. In addition to being varied, the phenomenon lacks visibility and concreteness because of the data incompleteness: quantifying just what appears, the crime rate is a trace of the crime, which is therefore necessary to give consistency to the statistical phenomenon, also in order to promote targeted enforcement actions. These statistical tools will be most effective if they refer to geographical areas restricted as much as possible, where the daily reality can lead to various, serious and frequent criminal manifestations: the perception of the crime level is critical to the quality of life, whereas a low appearing criminality may be due to under-reporting also for the mistrust that the legal system is able to effectively punish offenders and to protect victims.

Il volume fornisce una recente disamina della consistenza dell’organico delle imprese individuali della provincia barese e di quelle dei comuni della stessa di recente passati alla provincia Barletta-Andria-Trani e del loro movimento per nuove iscrizioni e cancellazioni. Segue un’analoga presentazione della consistenza e del movimento delle imprese individuali per 5 significative aree territoriali, che mette in chiara evidenza la variabilità territoriale di detti fenomeni. Altrettanto significativa l’analisi condotta per tipologia di attività economica delle suddette imprese con evidenziazione della differenziata dinamica delle imprese individuali baresi nei 12 settori di attività economica considerati. Infine l’analisi della consistenza e sul movimento delle imprese per anzianità delle stesse: utilizzando la metodologia del Lexis si giunge alle vere e proprie tavole di mortalità delle imprese con le classiche funzioni della sopravvivenza, della mortalità, della durata media e della durata probabile, calcolate in relazione all’età. In quest’ultima analisi emerge il chiaro effetto positivo del cambio generazionale nel contesto nella vita della imprese.

During the last two decades there was great attention for improved performance in the public sector. We know how important a good judicial system is: it permits to keep the peaceful coexistence between the citizens of a nation and, above all, the rights and duties that are necessary for each. In this paper our aim is to examine the Italian judicial efficiency, to check any territorial differences. For this purpose we use a two stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. In the first stage we evaluate performance of the 140 Ordinary Courts by mean of DEA, while in the second stage we explore determinant of efficiency/inefficiency using fractional regression model. Before doing this, we will prepare the reader presenting the basic concepts of efficacy and efficiency, explaining the method DEA and its various applications and finally we will also talk about the literature on the efficiency of the judiciary, which is a topic in Italy, despite the numerous ISTAT data, it did not find the right recognition. A bit will also be carried out on the international literature on the subject. At the end of all this will be shown in practical terms what has been done.

In Italy, one of the hinge points on which the concept of State leans - the Justice - has slipped in a deep crisis more and more since remarkable difficulties in its internal reorganization are accompanied to the natural process of review in the civil society in evolution. The more evident external aspects of such crisis are translated in the slowness of the judicial mechanism, in the high cost of its antiquated procedures and in the difference of the sentences for degrees of judgment. To comfort or to contradict this or that thesis, also, sometimes statistic data are brought in contrast from each other, because of what they define is not well specified. Wanting to give clarity, it is first of all necessary to delimit this analysis to the procedure of cognition, essential unit of the civil trial activity, for an objective knowledge of the phenomenon from the quantitative point of view, to be able to supply stable terms of reference for a better interpretation of the facts and a more serious search of the causes and the effects, reaching a suitable territorial distribution of the enquirer personnel, judging or not. The analysis of some statistic indicators (i.e., the procedures duration, the index of disposal, the percentage variation of pending) derived by the data related to supervened, exhaustions and pending allows to estimate the productivity of the judicial offices in comparison to the justice demand. In the centennial oscillation of the civil procedures of cognition (and particularly of the relative quotients for 100.000 inhabitants), both in first degree and appeals, a growth is established, especially in the last twenty-thirty years, of supervened and exhausted procedures, and still more of those leaning that among the 1991/2000 decade and the average value of the last seven years go over the doubling. The average life of the civil procedures in every degree of judgment that on the contrary has gone growing since 1881 to today, even though with occasional lowering events. The civil procedures of cognition have reached by now the average duration of 3.000 days, and this means around eight years of waiting for the definitive sentence.