• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 3: The Criminal Justice Response to Migrant Smuggling

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Criminal justice response: scope
  • Investigative and prosecutorial multidisciplinary approaches
  • • Different relevant actors in countering smuggling of migrants and their respective roles
    • Testimonial evidence
    • Financial investigations
    • Media
    • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
    • 'Outside the box' methodologies
  • Intra- and inter-agency coordination
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Sentencing
  • International cooperation
  • Exchange of information
  • Training

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2019.

 

 

  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 resources to their needs.

Video material

• Migrant Smugglers: Italy Launches Investigation into Criminal Gangs   (2:35 minutes), by CGTN Africa. The short video provides an insight of Italy's investigation into criminal groups and networks involved in smuggling migrants from North Africa to Europe.
• Prosecutor Salvatore Vella, on migrant smugglers by Investigate-Europe   (6 minutes). Salvatore Vella, the Agrigento anti-mafia prosecutor, talks in this video about the profiles and modus operandi of smugglers as well as the small impact of maritime military operations in the Mediterranean in the fight against organized groups involved in this crime.
• Surprising Europe - Taking the Leap   (app. 24 minutes), by Al Jazeera English. This episode, part of a documentary series, presents an account on the life of African migrants in Europe.

 

Databases

• SHERLOC Case Law Database on the Smuggling of Migrants

 

PowerPoint

• Module 3 PowerPoint presentation

 

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