• 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  

 

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. 

Websites

• The Global Goals 

• The Fragile State Index

• Criminological Theories