• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime / Counter-Terrorism

• Module 16: Linkages between Organized Crime and Terrorism

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Definitions and terminology
  • Organized crime and terrorism: International legal framework
  • • Terrorism international framework: International terrorism-related conventions
    • Terrorism international framework: General UNSC resolutions on terrorism
    • Organized crime international framework: The Organized Crime Convention and its Protocols
  • Theoretical frameworks on the linkages between organized crime and terrorism
  • Typologies of criminal behaviour associated with terrorism
  • • Terrorism and drug trafficking
    • Terrorism and trafficking in weapons
    • Links between terrorism, crime and trafficking in cultural property / antiquities
    • Trafficking in persons and terrorism
    • Intellectual property crime and terrorism
    • Kidnapping for ransom and terrorism
    • Exploitation of natural resources and terrorism
  • Summary
  • References

• Case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• • Research and independent study questions
  • Review and assessment questions
  • Quiz 16

• Additional teaching tools

Published March 2019

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

 

 

  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.

• Basra, R., Neumann P. R., and Brunner, C., (2016). Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR Report).
• Dandurand, Y. and Chin, V., (2004). Links Between Terrorism and Other Forms of Crime, International Centre for Criminal Reform and Criminal Justice Policy.
• Dishman, C. (2001). "Terrorism, Crime, and Transformation". 24:1 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 43-58.
• Hoffman, B. (1998). Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Hutchinson S. and O'Malley, P. (2007). "A Crime-Terror Nexus? Thinking on Some of the Links between Terrorism and Criminality". 30:12 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 1095-1107.
• Makarenko, T. (2004). "The Crime-Terror Continuum: Tracing the Interplay between Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism". 6:1 Global Crime 129-145.
• Salinas de Frias, A. (2016). Legal Instruments Combating TOC and Terrorism: Overlapping, Lacunae or Opportunities? Council of Europe, Background Information Report on the Linkages between Terrorism and Transnational Organised Crime, Strasbourg, 9 June 2016.
• Shelley, L.I., Picarelli, J.T., Irby, A., Hart, D.M., Craig-Hart, P.A., Williams, P., Simon, S., Abdullaev, N., Stanislawski, B., Covill, L. (2005). Methods and Motives: Exploring Links between Transnational Organized Crime & International Terrorism, US Department of Justice. 

 

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