• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 3: The Criminal Justice Response to Migrant Smuggling

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Criminal justice response: scope
  • Investigative and prosecutorial multidisciplinary approaches
  • • Different relevant actors in countering smuggling of migrants and their respective roles
    • Testimonial evidence
    • Financial investigations
    • Media
    • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
    • 'Outside the box' methodologies
  • Intra- and inter-agency coordination
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Sentencing
  • International cooperation
  • Exchange of information
  • Training

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2019.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Other resources

 

• Africa News (2017), Libyan smugglers post abuse of migrants on social media for ransom - UN
• Eurojust (2017), International operations against illegal immigrant smuggling ring
• European Union (2016), Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Europol (2017), Migrant smuggling ring dismantled by Finland, the United States and Iceland
• Nagl, Michael (2016), Global Investigations, Western Union Payment Services Ireland Ltd , OSCE
  
• Nebehay, Stephanie (2017), U.N. calls on social media giants to control platforms used to lure African migrants, Reuters
• The Guardian (2017), Facebook removes posts made by people smugglers aiming to lure migrants
• The Guardian (2017), Alleged people smuggler extradited from Indonesia to Australia
• United Nations,  Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules ), 16 March 2011, A/RES/65/229
• United Nations, Guidelines for the Regulation of Computerized Personal Data Files , Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/95 of 14 December 1990
• UNODC (1990), Basic Principles for the treatment of prisoners
• UNODC (2012), Manual on Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition
• UNODC (2018), Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants
• UNODC (2009), Regional Workshop on the Role of NGOs in Preventing the Smuggling of Migrants
• UNODC (2008), Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Working Group on the Smuggling of Migrants, Good practices in the establishment of multi-agency centres , CTOC/COP/WG.7/2013/3, 5 September 2013

 

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