• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 6: Causes and Facilitating Factors of Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Positivism: Environmental Influences
• Classical: Pain-Pleasure Decisions
• Structural Factors and Organized Crime
• Ethical Perspective: Moral Failure in Decision-Making
• Perspectives on Crime Causes and Facilitating Factors
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Exercises
• Case studies
• Thinking critically through fiction

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 6
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

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  

 

Exercises

 

This section contains material that is meant to support lecturers and provide ideas for interactive discussions and case-based analysis of the topic under consideration. 

• Exercises
• • Opportunity Structures: Youth@Work Program in the Solomon Islands
  • Customs and Culture: Change of Social Norms in Samoa
  • Women Participation: Analysis of Causes and Facilitating Factors
• Case studies
• • Blood Diamonds
  • Criminal Biographies
  • Hells Angels
  • Internet bank fraud perpetrated by university student in Fiji
  • Bribery of public officials; Corruption in government contract
  • Corruption of Members of the Parliament of Vanuatu
• Thinking critically through fiction:
• • Goodfellas
  • Shot Caller