Organised Crime and Economic Criminality

Code:

C405

Acronym:

CORCE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Criminology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
C	42	Oficial Study Plan LC	4	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To understand core concepts of organized crime and economic crime and their application within criminological discourse;
- To develop skills in critical analysis through engagement with the academic literature on organized crime and economic crime;
- To develop understanding of economic approaches to research into organized crime and white-collar crime;
- To appreciate the links between theories of the state and theories of organized crime and of white-collar crime;
- To develop awareness of criminal justice policies and policing strategies targeting organized crime and economic crime;
- To examine specific examples of organized crime and economic crime in foreign contexts and also within Portugal;
- To appreciate the complex interaction between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ regarding (transnational) organized crime;
-To understand the white-collar crime specificities in relation to other types of crime.

Program

PART I - ORGANIZED CRIME

I – ORGANIZED CRIME
1. Conceptual Issues - Defining Organized Crime
2. Origins & Case Studies
2. Mafias, Myths and Realities
3. Theories of Organized Crime and Theories of the State
4. Organized Crime as Enterprise Crime
5. The Intersection of Licit and Illicit Economies

II. COMBATTING ORGANIZED CRIME
1. Policing Organized Crime
2. The Role of Police Informers
3. Community, Regulatory and Private Sector Approaches

III. KIDNAP & RANSOM
1. The Kidnap & Ransom Phenomenon – Forms & Trends
2. Economic Kidnapping and Political Kidnapping
3. The Global Epidemic of Kidnap & Ransom
4. Policing & Security Responses – Local, National & Transnational

IV. TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME
1. Conceptual issues – Defining Transnational Organized Crime
2. Narco-Trafficking and the Illicit Drug Trade
3. The Global Travels of Organized Crime Groups
4. Policing Transnational Organized Crime
5. Threat Linkage - Transnational Organized Crime and International Terrorism

PART II – ECONOMIC CRIME
I – WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
1. Edwin Sutherland ´s “discovery” of white-collar crime
2. Defining the phenomenon and the debate about white-collar crime
3. Who is a white-collar criminal?
4. The nature of white-collar crime
5. A typology of white-collar crime
6. Theories of white-collar crime
7. The fonts of data in the study of white-collar crime
8. Difficulties in measuring white-collar crime and a review of empirical results
9. The consequences and the victims of white collar-crime
10. The debate on organizational vs. individual responsibility
11. Case-studies of white-collar crime

II – CORPORATE CRIME
1. The theory of the firm: explaining the existence of corporations
2. Corporate violence
3. Power abuse, fraud and exploitation

III – OCCUPATIONAL CRIME
1. Crimes by professionals and market failure: medical, legal and financial crime
2. Employee crime

IV – CORRUPTION, POLITICAL WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND STATE CRIME
1. Corruption in the political system and in the exercise of legislative and executive functions
2. Corruption in the legal system
3. Indirect corruption involving organizations and corporations controlled by the state
4. National and international case-studies of corruption

V – FINANCE CRIME
1. Banking and loans
2. Insider trading
3. Lobbying on financial regulation
4. “Pyramid” finance frauds

VI – TECHNOCRIME

Mandatory literature

AUGSBURGER-BUCHELI, Isabelle e BUCHER, Jean Luc; La Criminalité Économique: ses Manifestations, sa Prévention et sa Répression,, L´Harmattan, 2005
Neves, João Cesar das; Introdução à ética empresarial
FRIEDRICHS, David; Trusted Criminals: White-Collar Crime in Contemporary Society, Wadsworth, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-495-60082-4
Geis Gilbert; White-collar crime. ISBN: 0-02-911590-6
Santos Cláudia Maria Cruz; O^crime de colarinho branco. ISBN: 972-32-1009-6
Santos Cláudia Maria Cruz; A^corrupção. ISBN: 978-972-32-1716-2
WELLS, Joseph; Fraude na Empresa: Prevenção e Detecção, Almedina, 2007
Edwards Adam 340; Transnational organised crime. ISBN: 0-415-40339-1
Shapland Joanna 340; The^informal economy and connections with organised crime. ISBN: 978-90-8974-164-6
Lyman Michael D.; Organized crime. ISBN: 0-13-010020-X
Antoine-Grégoire Jean-Louis; The^European Union and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime. ISBN: 92-823-1628-9
Blanc Marc Lel 300; Tratado de criminologia empírica. ISBN: 978-972-796-293-8
Scherrer Amandine; G8 against trannational organized crime. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7544-0

Complementary Bibliography

Lipczynski John; Industrial organization. ISBN: 978-0-273-68802-0
Mata José; Economia da empresa. ISBN: 978-972-31-0901-6
Pombo Nuno; A^fraude fiscal. ISBN: 978-972-40-3093-7
RODRIGUES, Jorge; Corporate Governance, Uma Introdução, Edições Pedago, 2008
Newburn Tim 340; Handbook of policing. ISBN: 978-1-84392-323-7
Dan Ariely; Previsivelmente Irracional, Estrelapolar, 2008. ISBN: 9789898206183

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Observations

BACHER, J-L. & GAGNON, C. (2003) ‘A Criminalidade Economíca’ in Le Blanc, M., Ouimet, M. & Szabo, D. (eds.) Traité de Criminologia Empirique (Lisboa: Rolo & Filhos), 75-104.

EDWARDS, A. & GILL, P. (2003) Transnational Organized Crime: Perspectives on Global Security, London: Routledge.

FIORENTINI, G. & PELTZMAN, S. (1995) The Economics of Organized Crime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

GAMBETTA, D. & REUTER, P. (1995) ‘Conspiracy among the many: The Mafia in legitimate industries’, in Fiorentini, G. & Peltzman, S. (eds.), The Economics of Organized Crime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 116-36.

IKV PAX CHRISTI 2008, Kidnapping is booming business, IKV Pax Christi, Utrecht. (www.ikvpaxchristi.nl)

LEVI, M. (2002) ‘The Organization of Serious Crimes’, in Maguire, M., Morgan, R. & Reiner, R. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 878-913.

LEVI, M. (2003) ‘Organized and Financial Crime’, in Newburn, T. Handbook of Policing (Devon: Willan) 444-466.

LOBO-GUERRERO, L 2007, ‘Biopolitics of specialized risk: kidnap and ransom Insurance’, Security Dialogue, 38(3): 315-334.

LUPSHA, P.A. (1996) ‘Transnational Organized Crime versus the Nation-State’, Transnational Organized Crime, 2(1): 21-48.

MORSELLI, C., TURCOTTE, M. & PETIT, K. (2003) ‘Dos Elementos do Crime Organizado e Seu Controlo No Quebeque’, in Le Blanc, M., Ouimet, M. & Szabo, D. (eds.) Traité de Criminologia Empirique (Lisboa: Rolo & Filhos), 143-166.

NAYLOR, R.T., (1997) ‘Mafias, Myths and Markets’, Transnational Organized Crime, 3(3): 15-30.

NELKEN, D. (2003) ‘White-Collar Crime’, in Maguire, M., Morgan, R. & Reiner, R. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 844-877

SCHERRER, A (2009) The G8 Against Transnational Organised Crime, Ashgate: Aldershot.

SHEPTYCKI, J.W.E. (2002) In search of transnational policing: towards a sociology of global policing, Ashgate, Aldershot.

SHEPTYCKI, J.W.E. (2003) ‘Global Law Enforcement as a Protection Racket – Some Sceptical Notes on Transnational Organized Crime as an Object of Global Governance’ in Edwards, A. & Gill, P. Transnational Organized Crime: Perspectives on Global Security (London: Routledge), 42-58.

TILLY, C. (1985) ‘War making and state making as organized crime’, in P.B. Evans, D. Rueschemeer, T. Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 169-190.

TZANELLI, R (2006) ‘Capitalizing on value: towards a sociological understanding of kidnapping’, Sociology, 40(5): 929-947.