• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 15: Gender and Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • What is sex? What is gender? What is intersectionality? Why should we care?
  • Why do we know so little about gender in organized crime?
  • Gender and organized crime
  • Gender and different types of organized crime
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises and case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

Published April 2019

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2019

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (partly open access) materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Bautista, Ana J, Luis F. Cruz, Margarita Martinez Osorio, Isabel Pereira, Lucia Ramirez Bolivar (2018). Voces desde el cocal: mujeres que construyen territorio. DeJusticia. Colombia. 4 July 2018.
• Burgess-Proctor, A. (2006). Intersections of race, class, gender, and crime: Future Directions for Feminist Criminology. Feminist Criminology, 1, 27-47
• Crenshaw, Kimberly (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review. 41 (1241-129) 8.
• Miller, Jody (2001). One of the guys: Girls, gangs, and gender. New York: Oxford University Press. 
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018). Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants. Vienna: UNODC. 
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2018). World Drug Report 2018. UNODC: Vienna 2018.

 

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