• E4J University Module Series: Cybercrime

• Module 13: Cyber Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Cyber organized crime: What is it?
  • Conceptualizing organized crime and defining the actors involved
  • Criminal groups engaging in cyber organized crime
  • Cyber organized crime activities
  • Preventing and countering cyber organized crime
  • Conclusion
  • References

• Exercises and case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

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• First published in June 2019
  
• Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2020

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

Core reading

The following readings are (mostly open source) required readings that should be completed before taking a class based on this Module:

• BAE Systems Detica and London Metropolitan University (2012). Organised Crime in the Digital Age. Norton Cybercrime Report 2011.
• Broadhurst, Roderic (2018). Malware Trends on 'Darknet' Crypto-markets: Research Review. Report of the Australian National University Cybercrime Observatory for the Korean Institute of Criminology.
• Broadhurst, Roderic, Peter Grabosky, Mamoun Alazab and Steve Chon (2014).  Organizations and Cybercrime: An Analysis of the Nature of Groups engaged in Cyber Crime. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, Vol 8(1), pp. 1-20.
• Europol (2018). Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment 2018.
• Leukfeldt, E. Rutger, Anita Lavorgna, and Edward R. Kleemans (2017). Organised Cybercrime or Cybercrime that is Organized? An Assessment of the Conceptualization of Financial Cybercrime as Organised Crime. European Journal in Criminal Policy and Research, Vol. 23(3), 287-300.
• Leukfeldt, E. Rutger, Edward R. Kleemans, and Stol, Wouter (2017). Origin, growth and criminal capabilities of cybercriminal networks. An international empirical analysis. Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 67(1), 39-53 .
• Laeukfeldt, Rutger, Kleemans, Edward, and Stol, Wouter (2017). The Use of Online Crime Markets by Cybercriminal Networks: A View From Within. American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 61(11), p. 1387-1402.
• Lusthaus, Jonathan (2012). Trust in the world of cybercrime. Global Crime, Vol. 13(2), 71-94.
• Lusthaus, Jonathan (2013). How organised is organised cybercrime? Global Crime, Vol. 14(1), 52-60.
• Maras, Marie-Helen (2016). Cybercriminology. Oxford University Press. Chapter 13.
• Wall, David (2015). Dis-organized Crime: Towards a distributed model of the organization of Cybercrime. The European Review of Organized Crime, No. 2(2), 71-90.

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