• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 8: Law Enforcement Tools and Cooperation

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Jurisdiction
• Investigators of organized crime
• Controlled delivery
• Physical and electronic surveillance
• Undercover operations
• Financial analysis
• Use of informants
• Rights of victims and witnesses in investigations
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

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

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 8
• 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   

 

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 and exercises
• • Controlled Delivery
  • Rachel Hoffman
  • "Catfishing" of Sex Workers
  • Global Surveillance
  • Sting Operation
  • Entrapment
  • Global Action against Online Fraudsters in the Airline Sector
  • Specialized Enforcement Units' Coordination (Fiji)
  • Controlled Buys (Palau)
  • Undercover Operations
  • What constitutes entrapment? (South Africa)
  • The Akasha Brothers (Kenya - United States)
• Thinking critically through fiction:
• • Lord of War
  • Donnie Brasco
  • Entrapment
• Excerpts of legislation
• • Kiribati
  • Afghanistan
  • Council of Europe
  • Ukraine
  • Interpol