• 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  

 

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.

Legal

Articles in United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto.

• Article 15. Jurisdiction
• Article 16. Extradition
• Article 17. Transfer of sentenced persons
• Article 18. Mutual legal assistance

Legislative Guides for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto.

 

Academic literature

• Dandurand, Yvon (2007). Strategies and Practical Measures to Strengthen the Capacity of Prosecution Services in Dealing with Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism and Corruption. Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 47, 225-246.
• Joutsen, Matti (2014). International Instruments on Cooperation in Responding to Transnational Crime. In P. Reichel and J. Albanese, eds. Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice, 2d ed. Sage Publications, 303-322.

 

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