Session
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Session Focus
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Reading and other Assignments
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WK1A
1 Sept
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Introduction to the course
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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 1B
3 Sept
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Defining and Measuring Transnational Organized Crime
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van Schendel, W. and Abraham, I. (eds) (2005) Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization, Indiana University Press. Introduction (p 1-37).
ON MyJCU
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WK 2A
8 Sept
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Liquid crime: Globalization and its deviances
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Naim, Moises (2007) Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy, Arrow, Chapter 2 (p. 12-37)
HANDOUT
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WK 2B
10 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
HANDOUT
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WK3A
15 Sept
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Money laundering, the ‘clean’ economy and ‘gray’ economies
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Money laundering entry in Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice (2012) (p.259-270)
On MyJCU
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WK3B
17 Sept
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Cybercrimes
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Yar, M. (2006). Cybercrime and Society. London: SAGE Publications. Chapter 1 (p.1-20) On MyJCU
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WK4A
22 Sept
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Counterfeits and Intellectual Property Crimes
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Hilton, B., Choi, C. J., & Chen, S. (December 01, 2004). The Ethics of Counterfeiting in the Fashion Industry: Quality, Credence and Profit Issues. Journal of Business Ethics, 55, 4, 343-352.
On MyJCU
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WK 4B
24 Sept
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Counterfeits and Intellectual Property Crimes
Cont’d
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WK5A
29 Sept
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Trafficking in art and antiquities
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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.
On MYJCU
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WK 5B
1 Oct
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Trafficking in art and antiquities
Cont’d
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WK6A
6 Oct
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Trading in human beings - smuggling
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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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WK6B
8 Oct
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Trading in human beings – the trafficking business
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UNODC Global report onTrafficking In persons
(Students read and summarize assigned sections)
ON MyJCU
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WK 7A
13 Oct
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Documentary screening
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The New York Times article "The Girls Next Door" by Peter Landsman January 25, 2005
READ ONLINE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/the-girls-next-door.html
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WK 7B
15 Oct
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Mid-term exam
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WK 8A
20 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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WK8B
22 Oct
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Heroin, cannabis and synthetic drug trafficking
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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
27 Oct
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The drug trade continued
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WK 9B
29 Oct
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The illicit waste trade
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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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WK10A
3 Nov
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Environmental crimes
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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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WK10B
5 Nov
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Environmental crimes Cont’d
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WK11A
10 Nov
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Weak and failed states and transnational crime
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“Failed states. Fixing a broken world”, The Economist Jan 29th 2009
READ ONLINE
http://www.economist.com/node/13035718
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WK11B
12 Nov
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Weak and failed states and transnational crime cont’d
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“Conflict Minerals: The Price of Precious”, National Geographic, 2013
READ ONLINE
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/conflict-minerals/gettleman-text
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WK12A
17 Nov
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Transnational crime and terrorism
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START “Background Report on Boko Haram”, 2014
On MyJCU
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WK12B
19 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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WK 13 A
24 Nov
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Fighting global crime: State of the art and best practice
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WK 13B
26 Nov
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WK 14A
1 Dec
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Student Presentations
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WK 14B
3 Dec
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Student Presentations
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WK 14B
5 Dec
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Conclusions and review
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FINAL EXAM
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