• 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   

 

Exercises

 

This section contains material that is meant to support lecturers and provide ideas for interactive discussions and case-based analysis of the topic under consideration.

• Case studies and exercises
• • Cen Zahangyao
  • Smuggling of migrants from Morocco to Spain
  • Butler versus the United Kingdom
  • Sani Abacha's assets
  • R (on the application of Coll) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Justice (Respondent) [2017] UKSC 40. On appeal from [2015] EWCA Civ 328
  • Non-Conviction-Based Forfeiture - The Turtle Island Resort Case (Fiji)
  • Re Sentencing (Fiji)
  • Theory application
  • Sentencing tariffs/guidelines
    
• Thinking critically through fiction:
• • Maria Full of Grace
  • Midnight Express 
• Excerpts of legislation
• • New Zealand
  • Denmark
  • European Union
  • Israel
• Role play
• • Confiscation and interests of third parties