Transnational Crime
Index to various topics covered in this module
Not all of these topics will be taught in any one year
General Reading and link sites on the Web
Seminar 1 How is "organised crime" organised? Has this changed?
Seminar 2 How has terrorism changed from the time of Guevara to the time of bin Laden?
Seminar 3. The "business" of organised crime, of violence and terrorism .
Seminar 4. Strategies against Transnational Crime including
The American move from criminal justice to national security responses to transnational crime
Seminar 5. Counter-terrorist strategies
Seminar 6. States, civil society, organised criminality, terrorism and explanatory theories...Is a reconciliation possible between globalisation and the nation-state to deal with illicit business?
global response
Fraud and Money-Laundering
Trafficking in Human Beings
The Russian mafia, or whatever moral panic is current at the time of the module.
Moves towards global response: organisations, shell legislation, etc.
Changes after September 11th:
The European experience vs the American. Can an International Criminal Court be created?
Accountability and legitimacy of supranational responses . Privatisation
Week 12 States, civil society, organised criminality and explanatory theories. Is a reconciliation possible between globalisation and the nation-state to deal with illicit business?
Immigration
Drug-trafficking
Antique theft
Vehicle theft