- 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
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
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
Protocols to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
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- Article 1. General Provisions
- Article 3. Use of Terms
- Article 5. Criminalization
- Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
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- Article 1. General Provisions
- Article 3. Use of Terms
- Article 5. Criminal Liability of Migrants
- Article 6. Criminalization
- Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
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- Article 1. General Provisions
- Article 3. Use of Terms
- Article 5. Criminalization
- Articles 1 and 4
Academic Literature
- Bowman, Blythe A. (2008). Transnational Crimes against Culture: Looting at Archeological Sites and the "Grey" Market in Antiquities. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, vol. 24, 225-42.
- Coates, Michael and Pearson-Merkowitzz, Shanna (2017). Policy Spillover and Gun Migration: The Interstate Dynamics of State Gun Control Policies. Social Science Quarterly, vol. 98, 500-512.
- Hetzer, Wolfgang (2002). Godfathers and Pirates: Counterfeiting and Organized Crime. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice, vol. 10, 303-320.
- Leroy, Bernard (2014). Drug Trafficking (pp. 229-246). In N. Boister and R.J. Currie (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law. London: Routledge.
- Obokata, Tom (2014). Human Trafficking. In N. Boister and R.J. Currie (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law. London: Routledge.
Reports
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, INTERPOL, UNESCO (2016). Protecting Cultural Heritage: An Imperative for Humanity. Vienna: UNODC.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2015). UNODC Study on Firearms. Vienna: UNODC.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2016). World Wildlife Crime Report. Vienna: UNODC.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Vienna: UNODC.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018). Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants. Vienna: UNODC.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2019). World Drug Report. Vienna: UNODC.
- World Health Organization, Members States Mechanism on Substandard / Spurious / Falsely-labelled / Falsified / Counterfeit Medical Products (2017). Working Definition Document approved by the Seventieth World Health Assembly. Geneva: UNWHO.
- World Health Organization (2017). A Study on the Public Health and Socioeconomic Impact of Substandard and Falsified Medical Products. Geneva: UNWHO.
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