• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 11: International Cooperation to Combat Transnational Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Mutual legal assistance (MLA)
• Extradition
• Transfer of criminal proceedings
• Transfer of sentenced persons
• 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 11
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

References

 

• Aromaa, Kauko and Terhi Viljanen, eds. (2005). Enhancing International Law Enforcement Cooperation, Including Extradition Measures. European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI).
• Dammer, Harry R. and Jay S. Albanese (2014). Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, 5th ed. Wadsworth.
• Dandurand, Yvon (2007). Strategies and Practical Measures to Strengthen the Capacity of Prosecution Services in Dealing with Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism and Corruption. Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 47, 225-246.
• Efrat, Asif and Abraham L. Newman (2017). Divulging Data: Domestic Determinants of International Information Sharing. The Review of International Organizations.
• Europol (2017). Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment. European Union.
• Funk, T. Markus (2014). Assistance Treaties and Letters Rogatory: A Guide for Judges .  Federal Judicial Center International Litigation Guide.
• Harrington, Joanna (2014). Chapter 10 Extradition of transnational criminal (pp. 153-167). In N. Boister and R.J. Currie, eds. Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law. London: Routledge.
• Hartfield, Clive (2008). The Organization of "Organized Crime Policing" and Its International Context. Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 8, 483-507.
• Joutsen, Matti (2014). International Instruments on Cooperation in Responding to Transnational Crime. In P. Reichel and J. Albanese, eds. Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice, 2d ed. Sage Publications, 303-322.
• Missbach, Antje (2015). The Extradition of People Smugglers from Indonesia to Australia: Political and Legal Challenges. Australian Journal of Asian Law, vol. 15, 1-18.
• Nicholls, Clive, Clare Montgomery, Julian B. Knowles, Anand Doobay, and Mark Summers (2013). The Law of Extradition and Mutual Assistance, 3rd. ed. Oxford University Press.
• Reichel, Philip (2017). Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach, 7th ed. Pearson.
• Vervaele, John, A.E. (2014). Chapter 8 Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (pp. 121-137). In N. Boister and R.J. Currie, eds. Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law. London: Routledge.
• United Nations Economic and Social Council (2010). Capital Punishment and Implementation of the Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty. E/2010/10.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (1997). Model Treaty on Extradition . Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/116, amended by General Assembly resolution 52/88.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (1998). Model Treaty on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters . Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/117, amended by General Assembly resolution 53/112.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2003). Revised Manuals on the Model Treaty on Extradition and on the Model Treaty on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters . Vienna. UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2004). Model Law on Extradition . Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2006). Cross-cutting Issues: International Cooperation. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2007). Model Law on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters . Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). Manual on Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition . Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). Handbook on the International Transfer of Sentenced Persons . Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2017). Practical considerations, good practices and challenges encountered in the area of transfer of criminal proceedings as a separate form of international cooperation in criminal matters . Working Group on International Cooperation. Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Crime.
• United Nations Seventh Crime Congress (1985) . Model Agreement on the Transfer of Foreign Prisoners and Recommendations on the Treatment of Foreign Prisoners . Milan, 1985; endorsed by the General Assembly in resolution 40/32.

 

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