Transnational Policing - JURD7713
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: JURD7506, LAWS8013, LAWS8106
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Critically analyse the growth of transnational policing
- Develop an understanding of how concepts of human rights might be relevant to criminology
- Contribute to inter-disciplinary research into an expanding area of policing
- Contribute to the development of critical criminological perspectives in areas such as risk, national security, victims and state crime
Main Topics
- What is transnational organized crime?
- The policing of transnational organized crime
- The War on Drugs
- The War on Human Smuggling/Trafficking
- The War on Terror
- Criminological Perspectives
Assessment
| Research essay | 5,000 words | 100% |
Course Texts
Prescribed
There is no text that provides a suitable overview of the subject matter. The course therefore will be taught using prepared materials.
Recommended
- Newman, G (ed) (1999) Global Report on Crime and Justice, United Nations Office for Drug Control and Prevention, Oxford University Press, New York
- Passas, N (ed) Transnational Crime, Dartmouth Publishing and Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot
- Williams, P and Vlassis, D (eds) Combating Transnational Crime: Concepts, Activities and Responses, Frank Cass, London
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