This module is a resource for lecturers

Core reading

This section provides a list of (partly open access) materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

Legal

Articles in United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto :

• Article 1. Statement of Purpose
• Article 2. Use of Terms
• Article 3. Scope of Application

Legislative Guides for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto :

• Use of terms
• Scope of Application
• Protection of sovereignty

Academic Literature

• Finckenauer, James O. (2005). Problems of Definition: What is Organized Crime? Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 8, 63-83.
• Van de Bunt, Henk, Siegel, Dina, and Zaitch, Damián (2014). The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Paoli, Letizia and Tom Vander Beken 2014. Organized Crime: A Contested Concept. In L. Paoli (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Organised Crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reports

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). Section " The Importance of Territorial Groups in Central America" (pp. 21-31), in Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Vienna: UNODC.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2010). The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment. Vienna: UNODC.

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