• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 10: Sentencing and Confiscation in Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Aggravating and mitigating factors
• Sentencing options relating to organized crime
• Alternatives to imprisonment
• The death penalty and organized crime
• Backgrounds of convicted offenders
• Confiscation
• Confiscation in practice: responding to the movement of criminal assets
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies and exercises
• Thinking critically through fiction
• Excerpts of legislation
• Role play

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 10
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

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

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• Ligeti, Katalin and Michele Simonato (2017). Chasing Criminal Money. Challenges and Perspectives on Asset Recovery in the EU. London: Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 

• Skolnick, Jerome H. (2008). Policing Should Not be for Profit," Criminology & Public Policy, vol. 7, 257-261.

• Stephenson, Kevin M., Larissa Gray, Ric Power, Jean-Pierre Brun, Gabriele Dunker, and Melissa Panjer (2011). Barriers to Asset Recovery: An Analysis of the Key Barriers and Recommendations for Action. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.