• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 2: Organizing the Commission of Crimes

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Legal definitions of organized crimes
• Conspiracy
• Criminal association
• Definitions in the Organized Crime Convention
• Criminal organizations and enterprise laws
• Enabling offence: obstruction of justice
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies
• Thinking critically through fiction
• Excerpts of legislation

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 2
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in April 2018

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

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Exercises

 

This section contains material that is meant to support lecturers and provide ideas for interactive discussions and case-based analysis of the topic under consideration. 

• Case studies
• • Drug Smuggling Conspiracy
  • United States v. John Cody
• Thinking critically through fiction: Blood Diamond
• Excerpts of legislation
• • An example of the enterprise model: United States of America
  • An example of the common law offence of conspiracy: Ireland, Criminal Justice Act 2006
  • An example of criminalizing the participation in a criminal organization: Italy, Penal Code

 

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