• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 14: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and Related International Instruments

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Adoption of the Organized Crime Convention
• Historical context: why Palermo?
• Features of the Organized Crime Convention
• The protocols
• Related international instruments
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies
• Model United Nations simulation

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 14
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018.

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

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

References

 

• Schneider, Jane C. and Schneider, Peter T. (2003). Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
• Vlassis, Dimitri (2001). Overview of the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols. The United Nations Asia and Far East Institute.
• United Nations General Assembly (2017). 25th anniversary of the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone. Statement by Peter Thomson, President of the UN General Assembly, at the high-level debate to observe the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone. New York, 19 June 2017: UNHQ.
• United Nations General Assembly (2017). Closing of high-level debate to observe the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone. Closing remarks of Peter Thomson, President of the UN General Assembly, at high-level debate to observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone. New York, 19 June 2017: UNHQ.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2000, entered into force 2003). United Nations Convention against Transnational Crime and the Protocols Thereto. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2003, entered into force 2005). United Nations Convention against Corruption . Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2006). Travaux Préparatoires of the negotiations for the elaboration of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto . Vienna: UNODC. 
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). Legislative guide for the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2015). UNODC and the Sustainable Development Goals . Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2020). UNODC and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Vienna: UNODC.

 

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