• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 4: Infiltration of Organized Crime in Business and Government

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Extortion
• Extortion racketeering
• Loansharking
• Links between organized crime and corruption
• Bribery versus extortion
• Money-laundering
• Liability of legal persons
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Exercises and case studies
• Thinking critically through fiction
• Excerpts of legislation

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 4
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in April 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  

 

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

• Panama Papers: Victims of Offshore.

• The Border Patrol's Corruption Problem (2017) by The Atlantic.

• Center for Investigative Reporting. Crossing the Line: Corruption at the Border.

• Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

• Stealing Paradise (Maldives).