• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 11: International Cooperation to Combat Transnational Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Mutual legal assistance (MLA)
• Extradition
• Transfer of criminal proceedings
• Transfer of sentenced persons
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

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

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 11
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

 

 

  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:

• Vervaele, John, A.E. (2014). Chapter 8 Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (pp. 121-137). In N. Boister and R.J. Currie, eds. Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law. London: Routledge.
• Harrington, Joanna (2014). Chapter 10 Extradition of transnational criminal (pp. 153-167). In N. Boister and R.J. Currie, eds. Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law. London: Routledge.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (1997). Model Treaty on Extradition . Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/116, amended by General Assembly resolution 52/88.