• 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  

 

 

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 and case studies
• • Culture and corruption
  • Mexican Drug Cartels Laundering Proceeds of Crime via Wachovia
  • Infiltration of Government by Organized Crime; "Mafia Capitale"
  • Organized Crime in Viet Nam
  • Organized Crime Infiltration of the Police
  • Corruption of Public Official - Cook Islands
  • Money laundering by Public Officials - Fiji
• Thinking critically through fiction:
• • Scarface
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Excerpts of legislation
• • Santa Lucia
  • Brazil
  • Russian Federation
  • Australia
  • Fiji