• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 5: Conceptualizing and Measuring Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• How much organized crime is there?
• Alternative ways to measure organized crime
• Measuring product markets and flows
• Risk assessment
• Key concepts of risk assessment
• Risk assessment of organized criminal groups
• Risk assessment of product markets
• Risk assessment in practice
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Exercises and case studies
• Thinking critically through fiction

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 5
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in April 2018

Regional Perspectives: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

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

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Key issues

 

The sub-pages to this section provide a descriptive overview of the key issues that lecturers might want to cover with their students when teaching on this topic. 

• How much organized crime is there?
• Alternative ways to measure organized crime
• Measuring product markets and flows
• Risk assessment
• Key concepts of risk assessment
• Risk assessment of organized criminal groups
• Risk assessment of product markets
• Risk assessment in practice
• Summary
• References