• 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  

 

Student assessment

 

This section provides suggestions for post-class assignments for the purpose of assessing student understanding of the Module. Suggestions for pre-class or in-class assignments are provided in the Exercises section.

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

The assessment questions and quizzes are meant to be used by lecturers at the end of the class to assess the knowledge acquired by their students. In order to verify who has access to these post-class assessment materials, we kindly ask you to register yourself here.