• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 8: Law Enforcement Tools and Cooperation

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Jurisdiction
• Investigators of organized crime
• Controlled delivery
• Physical and electronic surveillance
• Undercover operations
• Financial analysis
• Use of informants
• Rights of victims and witnesses in investigations
• 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 8
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

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

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Key issues

 

The sub-pages to this section provide a descriptive overview of the key issues that lecturers might want to cover with their students when teaching on this topic. 

• Jurisdiction
• Investigators of organized crime
• Special investigative techniques and intelligence gathering
• • Controlled delivery
  • Physical and electronic surveillance
  • Undercover operations
  • Financial analysis
  • Use of informants
• Rights of victims and witnesses in investigations
• Summary
• References