• 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  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• Akers, Ronald L., Christine S. Sellers, Wesley G. Jennings (2016). Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application, 7th ed. Oxford University Press.

• Bullock, K., R.V. Clarke, and N. Tilley (2010). Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes. Willan Publishing.

• Cloward, Richard A. and Lloyd E. Ohlin (1960). Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs. New York: Free Press.

• Hobbs, Dick (2013). Lush life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK. Oxford University Press.

• Passas, Nikos (2001). Globalization and Transnational Organized Crime: Effects of Criminogenic Asymmetries. In P. Williams and D. Vlassis, eds., Combating Transnational Organized Crime: Concepts, Activities and Responses, London: Frank Cass.

• Valasik, Matthew (2014). Classical Criminology. In J. Albanese, ed. Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice. Wiley.

• Zabyelina, Yuliya G. (2016). Can Criminals Create Opportunities for Crime? Malvertising and Illegal Online Medicine Trade. Global Crime, vol. 17, 1-18.