• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 7: Models of Organized Criminal Groups

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Models and structure of organized crime
• Hierarchical model of organized criminal groups
• Local, cultural model of organized crime
• Enterprise or business model of organized crime
• Focusing on groups versus activities
• New forms of organized crime: networked structures
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies and exercises
• Thinking critically through fiction

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 7
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

Regional Perspective: 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. 

• Case studies and exercises
• • Operation Onymous
  • Structure of a drug trafficking organization
  • Operation Eagle (Cook Islands)
  • Human Trafficking (New Zealand)
  • Japan's Yakuza
• Thinking critically through fiction:
• • The Preppie Connection
  • Nefarious: Merchant of Souls