• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 10: Sentencing and Confiscation in Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Aggravating and mitigating factors
• Sentencing options relating to organized crime
• Alternatives to imprisonment
• The death penalty and organized crime
• Backgrounds of convicted offenders
• Confiscation
• Confiscation in practice: responding to the movement of criminal assets
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies and exercises
• Thinking critically through fiction
• Excerpts of legislation
• Role play

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 10
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2020

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Student assessment

 

This section provides suggestions for post-class assignments for the purpose of assessing student understanding of the Module. Suggestions for pre-class or in-class assignments are provided in the Exercises section. 

• Research and independent study questions
• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 10

The assessment questions and quizzes are meant to be used by lecturers at the end of the class to assess the knowledge acquired by their students. In order to verify who has access to these post-class assessment materials, we kindly ask you to register yourself here.