• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 9: Prosecution Strategies

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• The role of prosecutors
• Adversarial versus inquisitorial legal systems
• Mitigating punishment
• Granting immunity from prosecution
• Witness protection
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies and exercises
• Thinking critically through fiction
• Excerpts of legislation

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 9
• 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  

 

References

 

• Abdel-Monem, Tarik (2003). Foreign Nationals in the US Witness Security Program: A Remedy for Every Wrong? American Criminal Law Review, vol. 40, 1253-1269.
• Brand, Paul and Joshua Getzler, eds. (2015). Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law: From Antiquity to Modern Times. Cambridge University Press.
• Dammer, Harry and Jay Albanese (2014). Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, 5th ed. Wadsworth.
• Dandurand, Yvon and Kristin Farr (2010). A Review of Selected Witness Protection Programs. Ottawa: Public Safety Canada.
• Di Luca, Joseph (2005). Expedient McJustice or Principled Alternative Dispute Resolution - A Review of Plea Bargaining in Canada. Criminal Law Quarterly, vol. 50, 14.
• Earley, Pete and Gerald Shur (2002). WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program. New York: Bantam Books. 131.
• Falcon, Gabriel (2013). Inside the Witness Protection Program. CNN.com, February 16.
• Finn, Peter and Kerry Murphy Healey (1996). Preventing Gang- and Drug-Related Witness Intimidation. National Institute of Justice.
• Flanagan, James F. (1980-81). Compelled Immunity for Defense Witnesses: Hidden Costs and Questions. Notre Dame Law Review, vol. 56, 447.
• Fyfe, Nicholas and James Sheptycki (2006). International Trends in the Facilitation of Witness Co-operation in Organized Crime Cases. European Journal of Criminology, vol. 3, 347-359.
• Kash, Douglas A. (2004). Hiding in Plain Sight: A Peek into the Witness Security Program. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, vol. 73, 25-32.
• Kelly, Robert J., Rufus Schatzberg, and Ko-lin Chin (1994). Without Fear of Retribution: The Witness Protection Program. In R.J. Kelly, K. Chin, and R. Schatzberg, eds., Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States. Greenwood Publishing, 491-504.
• Merryman, John Henry and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo (2007). The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America. Stanford University Press.
• Montanino, Fred (1990). Protecting Organized Crime Witnesses in the United States. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, vol. 14, 123-132.
• Reichel, Philip L. (2017). Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach, 7th ed. Pearson.
• Sheptycki, James (2017). Uneasy Truths; Criminal-Informants, Witness Protection, Trust and Legitimacy in the Policing of Organized Crime. In Contemporary Organized Crime: Developments, Challenges and Responses, H. Nelen and D. Siegel, eds. Springer.
• Trotter, Andrew (2012). Witness Intimidation in International Trials: Balancing The Need For Protection Against The Rights of The Accused. George Washington International Law Review, vol. 44, 521-537.
• UNAFEI 120^th International Senior Seminar; Reports of the Course. Cooperation between the police and prosecutors. UNAFEI: Resource Material Series No. 60.
• United Nations Conference of the State Parties (2013). Report on regional implementation of chapter III (Criminalization and law enforcement) of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. CAC/COSP/2013/11 Panama City.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2004). Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2008). Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons, 2d ed. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2008). Good Practices for the Protection of Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings involving Organized Crime. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2011). Criminal Intelligence Manual for Analysts. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). Digest of Organized Crime Cases. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). Model Legislative Provisions against Organized Crime. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2015). Report on the State of Implementation of the Convention against Corruption , 96-99. Vienna: UNODC. 
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2016). Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Needs Assessment Tools. Vienna: UNODC.
• Violet, Arlene and John Partington (2011). The Mob and Me: Wiseguys and the Witness Protection Program. New York: Pocket Star Books.

 

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