PL50663: Organised crime in Europe: threats and challenges
[Page last updated: 02 August 2022]
| Academic Year: | 2022/23 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 33%, ES 67% |
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| Learning Outcomes: | On completion of this unit, students will be familiar with:
* A detailed/empirical understanding of organised crime in Europe * The critical/analytical approach to the major issues raised by organised crime. * The theoretical debates associated with organised crime and its relationship with politics. * The ways in which organised crime challenges democracy (politics, economics and civil society) * The security implications of organised crime for the EU. |
| Aims: | The units aims:
* To identify the main theoretical concepts adopted to analyse organised crime. * To study the ways in which these issues constitute a challenge to the idea of the nation-state and democracy. * To explore the extent to which these topics represent new and non-traditional security threats. |
| Skills: | The key skills the unit will hone and further develop are:
* Advanced research skills in identifying, locating and exploiting a wide range of descriptive, evaluative and theoretical literature. * Intellectual skills of conceptual, original and independent thinking, critical analysis, synthesis and reasoned argument. * Skills of assessment and judgement in relation to the soundness of competing arguments and scenarios, including the reporting and assessing of qualitative and quantitative data. * Generic and transferable skills related to the oral and written presentation of ideas. * Skills of self-direction, self-evaluation and time management. |
| Content: | 1. Defining organised crime
2. Explaining organised crime 3. Organised crime and civil society 4. Organised crime and the economy 5. Organised crime and its relationship with politics I 6. Italian organised crime in Europe 7. Non-traditional organised crime 8. Organised crime and its relationship with politics II 9. The fight against organised crime 10. Organised crime: challenging democracy. |
| Programme availability: |
PL50663 is Optional (DEU) on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
PL50663 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
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