Session
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Session Focus
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Reading and other Assignments
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WK1A
28 Aug
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Introduction to the course
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Naim, Moises (2007) Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy, Arrow, Chapter 2 (p. 12-37)
On MyJCU
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WK 1B
30 Aug
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Defining and Measuring Transnational Organized Crime
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United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000) (esp p5-12)
ON MyJCU
http://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNTOC/Publications/TOC%20Convention/TOCebook-e.pdf
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WK 2A
4 Sept
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Liquid crime: Globalization and its deviances
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Standing, A. (2011) Transnational Organized Crime and the Palermo Convention: A Reality Check On MyJCU http://www.ipinst.org/2011/01/transnational-organized-crime-and-the-palermo-convention-a-reality-check
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WK 2B
6 Sept
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Practices of transnational organized crime
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Chambliss, W.J. and Williams, E. (2011) in Allum, F. and Gilmour, S. “Transnational Organized Crime and Social Sciences Myths” in Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organised Crime, Routledge, Chapter 3, p. 52-64
On MyJCU
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WK3A
11 Sept
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Global Match Fixing
Guest Lecture: Prof Vanda Wilcox
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WK3B
13 Sept
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CLASS CANCELLED: MAKE-UP CLASS 4 OCT 8-7.30PM
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Sciarrone, R., & Storti, L. (January 01, 2014). The territorial expansion of mafia-type organized crime. The case of the Italian mafia in Germany. Crime Law and Social Change, 61, 1, 37-60. On MyJCU
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WK4A
18 Sept
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Money laundering, the ‘clean’ economy and ‘gray’ economies
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Europol Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (2013)
https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/eu-serious-and-organised-crime-threat-assessment-socta
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WK 4B
20 Sept
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Cybercrimes
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Lavorgna, A. (2014). Internet-mediated drug trafficking: towards a better understanding of new criminal dynamics. Trends In Organized Crime, 17(4), 250-270. On MyJCU
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WK4C
22 Sept
FRIDAY
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MAKE-UP DAY FOR 1 NOV Cybercrimes cont’d
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Kshetri, Nir B. (2013). Cybercrimes in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe: Current Status and Key Drivers. On MyJCU
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WK5A
25 Sept
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Counterfeits and Intellectual Property Crimes
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Watch counterfeiting documentary (link on MyJCU)
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WK 5B
27 Sept
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Counterfeits and Intellectual Property Crimes
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Adler, Christine, Chappell, Duncan, & Polk, Kenneth. (2009). Perspectives on the organisation and control of the illicit traffic in antiquities in South East Asia. Research Online.
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WK6A
2 Oct
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Trafficking in art and antiquities
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WK6B
4 Oct
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Trafficking in art and antiquities cont'd
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Keefe, P. R. (January 01, 2009). Snakeheads and Smuggling: The Dynamics of Illegal Chinese Immigration. World Policy Journal, 26, 1, 33-44.
On MyJCU
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WK 6C
4 Oct
6-7.30pm
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MANDATORY MAKE-UP LECTURE
MAFIAS IN ROME
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WK 7A
9 Oct
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Human smuggling
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Shelley, Louise (2014) Human Trafficking and Smuggling into Europe On My JCU
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/human-smuggling-and-trafficking-europe-comparative-perspective
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WK 7B
11 Oct
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Mid-term exam
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WK 8A
16 Oct
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Trading in human beings – the trafficking business
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Reading TBA
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WK8B
18 Oct
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Cocaine trafficking: new routes and methods
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Stephen Ellis, “West Africa's International Drug Trade,” African Affairs, 108(431), 2009: 171-196.
On MyJCU
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WK 9A
23 Oct
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Heroin and opiates
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Eisler, David (2012) “Afghanistan’s Opium Economy: Incentives, Insurgency, and International Demand”, Journal of International Affairs
READ ONLINE
http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/online-articles/afghanistans-opium-economy/
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WK 9B
25 Oct
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Cannabis and synthetic drug trafficking
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WK 10A
30 Oct
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The illicit waste trade
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WK10B
1 Nov
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NO CLASS: ITALIAN NATIONAL HOLIDAY
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WK11A
6 Nov
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Environmental crimes Cont’d
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Jonny Steinberg “The illicit abalone trade in South Africa”
ISS Paper 105 • April 2005, http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/papers/105/Paper105.htm
ON MyJCU
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WK11B
8 Nov
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Weak and failed states and transnational crime
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KINNIBURGH, C. (2014). Beyond "Conflict Minerals". Dissent (00123846), 61(2), 61-68.
ON MyJCU
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WK12A
13 Nov
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Transnational crime and terrorism
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Asal, V., Milward, H., & Schoon, E. (2015). When terrorists go bad: Analyzing terrorist organizations’ involvement in drug smuggling. International Studies Quarterly, 59(1), 112-123. doi:10.1111/isqu.12162 ON MyJCU
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European Parliament (2012) : “Europe’s Crime-Terror Nexus: Links between terrorist and organised crime groups in the European Union P8-40 ON MyJCU
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WK12B
15 Nov
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International governance and its challenges
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Council on Foreign Relations (2013) “The Global Regime for Transnational Crime”
READ ONLINE
http://www.cfr.org/transnational-crime/global-regime-transnational-crime/p28656
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WK13A
20 Nov
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Fighting global crime: State of the art and best practice
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WK 13B
22 Nov
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Student Presentations
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WK 14A
27 Nov
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Student Presentations
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WK 14B
29 Nov
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Student Presentations
Conclusions and review
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