• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 3: Organized Crime Markets

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Drug trafficking
• Firearms trafficking
• Wildlife and forest crime
• Counterfeit products trafficking
• Manufacturing of and trafficking in falsified medical products
• Trafficking in cultural property
• Trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies and exercises
• Thinking critically through fiction

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 3
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in April 2018, updated in February 2020

Regional Perspectives: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

Regional Perspectives: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2020

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as PowerPoint slides and video material, that could help the lecturer teach the issues covered by the Module. Lecturers can adapt the slides and other resources to their needs. 

Documentary

• Dark Trade

• Sold to the Sea: Human Trafficking in Thailand's Fishing Industry

• Art of the Heist: Den of Antiquities

• A Smuggler's Fortune: Turkey

• Skin and Bone (organ harvesting)

• Cyber Paedophiles: Webcam Predators in the Philippines - 101 East

• Thailand's Blood Timber - 101 East

• The Trade (heroin trafficking)