• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 2: Organizing the Commission of Crimes

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Legal definitions of organized crimes
• Conspiracy
• Criminal association
• Definitions in the Organized Crime Convention
• Criminal organizations and enterprise laws
• Enabling offence: obstruction of justice
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

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

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 2
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in April 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

Article in United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto

• Article 5: Criminalization

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

• Criminalization of participation in a criminal group

 

Academic Literature

• Boister, N. (2016). Chapter 7 "The UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime 2000" (pp. 126-149) in P. Hauck and S. Peterke (eds.), International Law and Transnational Organised Crime. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 
• Sergi, Anna (2014). Organised Crime in Criminal Law: Conspiracy and Membership Offences in Italian, English and International Frameworks. King's Law Journal, vol. 25, 185-200.

 

Reports

• Library Briefing (2013). The EU Response to Organised Crime. Library of the European Parliament.  

 

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