• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 14: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and Related International Instruments

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Adoption of the Organized Crime Convention
• Historical context: why Palermo?
• Features of the Organized Crime Convention
• The protocols
• Related international instruments
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies
• Model United Nations simulation

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 14
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018.

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.

Legal

• Vlassis, Dimitri (2001). Overview of the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols. The United Nations Asia and Far East Institute.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2000, entered into force 2003). United Nations Convention against Transnational Crime and the Protocols Thereto. Vienna: UNODC.

 

Report

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2005). Rules of Procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Vienna: UNODC.

 

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