• 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  

 

References

 

• Ayling, Julie and Roderic Broadhurst (2014). Organized Crime Control in Australia and New Zealand. In L. Paoli, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime. Oxford University Press.
• Calderoni, Francesco (2010). Organized Crime Legislation in the European Union: Harmonization and Approximation of Criminal Law, National Legislations and the EU Framework Decision on the Fight against Organized Crime. Springer Science & Business Media.
• Calderoni, Francesco (2012). "U.N. Convention against Transnational Organized Crime." In Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice, edited by Margaret E. Beare. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Chamberlin, Henry Barrett (1932). Some Observations Concerning Organized Crime. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 22, 667.
• Hauck, Pierre and Sven Peterke, eds. (2016). International Law and Transnational Organised Crime. Oxford University Press.
• Heber, Anita (2009). Networks of Organised Black Market Labour in the Building Trade. Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 12, 122-144.
• Kleemans, E.R. (2017). 'Organized Crime and Places.' In G.J.N. Bruinsma and S.D. Johnson, eds. Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• New York State Organized Crime Task Force. (1990). Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry. New York University Press.
• Okoth, J.R.A. (2014). The Crime of Conspiracy in International Criminal Law. Springer.
• Salvador, W. Joseph (2015). Dismantling the Internet Mafia: RICO's Applicability to Cyber Crime. Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal, vol. 41, 268-297.
• Sergi, Anna (2014). Organised Crime in Criminal Law: Conspiracy and Membership Offences in Italian, English and International Frameworks. King's Law Journal, vol. 25, 185-200.
• State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation (2011). Industrious Subversion: Circumvention of Oversight in Solid Waste andRecycling in New Jersey. Commission of Investigation.
• Transcrime (2012). Study on Extortion and Racketeering: The Need for an Instrument to Combat Activities. Bruxelles : Commission européenne.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2004). United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto. Vienna: UNODC. 
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2004). United Nations Convention against Corruption. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). Model Legislative Provisions against Organized Crime. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2015). Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto. Vienna: UNODC.
• U.S. v. Herrera (2016). WL 561904, United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 14 C 1933.
• U.S. Department of Justice (2016). Criminal RICO: 18 U.S.C. §§1961-1968, A Manual for Federal Prosecutors. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Justice.
• Weber, T. (2001). Thirty-Five Tagged in Formula Drug Scheme. Associated Press, December 14.

 

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