• 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  

 

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:

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012), Manual on Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition
• Working Group on the Smuggling of Migrants to the Conference of the Parties to the UNTOC, Background Papers, 2012 and 2018
• The Bali Process (2015), Privacy and Data Protection Laws of Bali Process Member States
• Grant Thornton (2017), Preventing human trafficking: global issue, calling Canada - Understanding, identifying and ending trade in human lives  

 

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