International Strategies Against Organized Crime

The teaching aims at transmitting knowledge and understanding of the international strategies against transnational organized crime. It also intends to foster students' capability to grasp the essence of the topic of transnational organised crime, to develop their capability to assess autonomously complex legal issues, and to discuss critically about them. The prevailing part of the course (first and second module) is devoted to examining the legislative policies and operative instruments against transnational organized crime developed within the framework of the United Nations and European Union, with a specific focus on the suppression of and judicial cooperation against transnational organized crime. The third module aims to analyse the role of cultural and educational programmes to prevent transnational organized crime internationally.

At the end of the course students shall master the fundamental characters, as well as the main problems emerging from the legal and cultural strategies envisaged by the International Community to tackle transnational organized crime, and will also have to be in the position to frame future United Nations and European Union activities in new international scenarios of organized crime. While attending the course, students will be required to perform research tasks, hence becoming familiar with electronic case-law and legislation databases (i.e. UNODC Sherloc Portal), scholarly collections, and other on-line resources. Such skills, which may be used for autonomous research purposes, will be suitable to be eventually resorted to both in the course of their studies and in their future profession.