Session
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Session Focus
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Reading and other assignments
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WK 1A
3 Sept
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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 Moodle
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WK 1B
5 Sept
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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)
http://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNTOC/Publications/TOC%20Convention/TOCebook-e.pdf
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WK 2A
10 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 Moodle http://www.ipinst.org/2011/01/transnational-organized-crime-and-the-palermo-convention-a-reality-check
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WK 2B
12 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 Moodle
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WK 3A
17 Sept
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Money laundering, the ‘clean’ economy and ‘gray’ economies
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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 Moodle
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WK 3B
19 Sept
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Money laundering cont’d
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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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WK3C
20 Sept
FRIDAY
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MAKE-UP CLASS
Cybercrimes
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Watch Sakawa Boys video
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WK 4A
24 Sept
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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 Moodle
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WK 4B
26 Sept
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Counterfeits and Intellectual Property Crimes
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Watch counterfeiting documentary (link on Moodle)
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WK 5A
1 Oct
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Counterfeits and Intellectual Property Crimes
Cont’d
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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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WK 5B
3 Oct
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Trafficking in art and antiquities
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Reading TBA
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WK 6A
8 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 Moodle
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WK 6B
10 Oct
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Human smuggling
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Shelley, Louise (2014) Human Trafficking and Smuggling into Europe On Moodle
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/human-smuggling-and-trafficking-europe-comparative-perspective
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WK 7A
15 Oct
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Trading in human beings – the trafficking business
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Reading TBA
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WK7B
17 Oct
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Mid-term Exam
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WK 8A
22 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 Moodle
Essay outlines due!!
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WK 8B
24 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 9A
29 Oct
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Cannabis and synthetic drug trafficking
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“Computers pile up in Ghana dump” BBC 5 August 2008
READ ONLINE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7543489.stm
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WK 9B
31 Oct
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The illicit waste trade
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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 Moodle
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WK 10A
5 Nov
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Environmental crimes
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Kinniburgh, C. (2014). Beyond "Conflict Minerals". Dissent (00123846), 61(2), 61-68.
On MyJCU
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WK 10B
7 Nov
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Weak and failed states and transnational crime
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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 Moodle
OR
European Parliament (2012) : “Europe’s Crime-Terror
Nexus: Links between terrorist and organised crime groups in the
European Union P8-40 ON Moodle
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WK 11A
12 Nov
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Transnational crime and terrorism
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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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WK 11B
14 Nov
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Fighting global crime: State of the art and best practice
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WK 12A
19 Nov
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Student Presentations
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Final research projects due
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WK 12B
21 Nov
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Student Presentations
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WK 13A
26 Nov
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Student Presentations
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WK 13B
28 Nov
NO CLASS
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THANKS-
GIVING
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WK 14A
3 Dec
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Student Presentations
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WK 14B
5 Dec
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Student Presentations
Conclusions and review
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EXAMS
WEEK
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