1. Communicate an in-depth and critical understanding of the debates surrounding domestic organised crime and their application to a transnational context
Knowledge and Understanding
Learning
Communication

2. Demonstrate ability to undertake analysis of the complex and ever-changing dynamics of domestic organised crime groups and the methods utilised to carry out a range of criminal activities that are of a transnational nature
Knowledge and Understanding
Analysis
Reflection

3. Communicate ability to apply an in-depth and critical knowledge of conceptual issues in domestic organised crime to contemporary case studies
Learning
Application
Enquiry
Communication

4. Demonstrates capacity to evaluate how effectively law enforcement and/or security systems are tackling strategies employed by domestic organised criminal groups
Knowledge and Understanding
Enquiry
Problem Solving
Reflection

5. Use weekly learning journal entries to chart progress on the selected assignment
Knowledge and Understanding
Reflection
Communication

1. E-presentation/word blogs/problem-based assignment from selected list of titles 80% 4, 000
2. Weekly learning journal entries 20% 250 weekly entries

1. Students will select one of the following types of assignments:
• Completion of a 15-minute e-presentation (consisting of both a visual presentation and accompanying audio)
• Completion of 3 x 1,250 word blogs (total of 4,000 words)
• Completion of a 4, 000 word problem based assignment
(meets learning outcomes 1, 2 3 4 5)

2. Completion of weekly learning journal entries (250 words per entry). Entries can be used to inform the assignment (meets learning outcome 5)

The following is an indication of the topics that would be studied on this module; the exact content can be subject to change to ensure that the material remains current and contemporary and reflective of developments within domestic organised crime.
Using case studies, this module seeks to develop students’ ability to understand some of the key issues involved in understanding domestic organised crimes which is a highly sensitive, controversial and continually evolving subject.
It will look at a number of relevant historical and contemporary in-depth case studies of domestic organised criminal groups. A range of domestic organised criminal activities will be explored; weapons of choice and use of instrumental/serious violence, child sexual exploitation (recruitment of vulnerable victims) and sexual violence and drug trafficking (county lines).
Counterbalancing and interconnecting with this will be an examination and analysis of the growth, development and effectiveness of law enforcement systems in relation to the problem of dealing with domestic organised crime as well as the difficulties in addressing the transnational nature of organised crime groups and the relational difficulties of international cooperation between national legal, political and law enforcement bodies.
Through close engagement with case studies, students will be supported to develop a realistic assessment of what the main threats of domestic organised crime are whilst critically reflecting on the ways in which these have and could be tackled.

This module will be based on flexible learning materials delivered using the Blackboard virtual learning environment and selected readings provided in:
(a) a limited number of course texts
(b) reading packs of selected articles and book chapters and
(c) e-books, e-journal articles and online news coverage.

The Blackboard environment will provide a context for:
- Listen to a series of pre-recorded weekly e-podcast materials that cover key issues on the topic and a session on assessment guidance
- Tutors to highlight key issues, problems and debates for discussion
- Learners to undertake a range of structured activities which will involve, for example, problem-solving, scenarios, engagement with group discussions.
- Tutors to provide guidance and advice.
- Learners to access guidance on on-line resources available via the web and the university's e-resources pages.
The readings will provide:
- An essential knowledge base for the module which will be available to all learners.
- A resource for coursework and all assessed assignments.
- A point of departure for the structured activities set for learners. Learners will be expected to engage fully and critically with the resources and activities that are provided.
- Tutors will arrange to be online once a week for 13-weeks at a designated UK time for virtual discussion with students and to answer questions relating to the weekly topic. This session will be recorded and uploaded for students to review.
- Tutors will give online academic support and guidance to learners throughout the lifetime of the module and will respond on a timely basis.
- Students will engage in independent study outside of the lecture/seminar this will include:
- Complete required readings, relevant to each week’s topic. Doing these readings will give students a deeper understanding of each of the topics under discussion
- Preparing for the taught sessions by doing the key reading(s)
Working towards assessments by:
Completing individual weekly learning journal entries (250 words per entry) that record progress relating to the assignment. Weekly journal entries can be woven into the final assessment. The module leader will review a sample of students’ weekly learning entries across the life-time of the module and post constructive feedback about the entries to support student development.

Galeottie, Mark (ed.) (2007) Global Crime Today. London. Routledge
Wright, A. (2006) Organised Crime. Willan Publishing
Hesterman, J.L. (2013) The Terrorist-Criminal Nexus. CRC Press
Findlay, M., (2008). Governing through Globalised Crime: Futures for International Criminal Justice. Willan Publishing
Beare, M. E., (2012). Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice. Sage Publications
Fregoso, R.L., and Bejarano, C., (eds). (2009). Terrorising Women. Duke University Press
Casa Zamora, K., (2013). Dangerous Liaisons: Organised Crime and Political Finance in Latin American and Beyond: Brookings Institution Press. Washington
Curry, GD., Decker, SH, Pryooz, DC (2014). Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community. Third Edition. Oxford. Oxford University Press
Cuevas, CA and Rennison, CM., (eds). The Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence. John Wiley and Sons. New York
Fox, KA., (2017). ‘Gangs, Gender and Violent Victimisation’: Victims and Offender 12 (1)
Harfield, C., (2008). ‘The Organisation of ‘Organised Crime Policing’ and its International Context’: Criminology and Criminal Justice. 8 (4)
Harfield, C., MacVean, A., Grieve, J and Philips, D., (eds). Handbook of Intelligent Policing. Oxford. Oxford University Press
Martellozzo, E., (2012). Online Child Sexual Abuse, Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World. London Routledge
Ost, S., (2009). Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses. Cambridge studies in Law and Society.
Davidson JC and Gottschalk, P., (eds) (2011) Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy. London. Routledge
Williams, G., Alessandra Finlay, F., (2018). ‘County Lines: How gang Crime is affecting our Young People’: Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Stone, N., (2018). ‘Childhood Criminal Exploitation: ‘County Lines’, Trafficking and Cuckooing’: Youth Justice. 18 (3).
Coomber, R., and Moyle, L., (2018). ‘The changing shape of street level Heroin and Crack Supply in England: Commuting, Holidaying and Cuckooing Drug Dealers across ‘County Lines’: The British Journal of Criminology. 58 (6)

A networked computer capable of accessing the internet and running applications such as Blackboard and Adobe Acrobat.
A Word Processor compatible with Microsoft Word.
The Blackboard VLE will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook

The following is an indication of the topics that would be studied on this module; the exact content can be subject to change to ensure that the material remains current and contemporary and reflective of developments within domestic organised crime.
Using case studies, this module seeks to develop students’ ability to understand some of the key issues involved in understanding domestic organised crimes which is a highly sensitive, controversial and continually evolving subject.
It will look at a number of relevant historical and contemporary in-depth case studies of domestic organised criminal groups. A range of domestic organised criminal activities will be explored; weapons of choice and use of instrumental/serious violence, child sexual exploitation (recruitment of vulnerable victims) and sexual violence and drug trafficking (county lines).
Counterbalancing and interconnecting with this will be an examination and analysis of the growth, development and effectiveness of law enforcement systems in relation to the problem of dealing with domestic organised crime as well as the difficulties in addressing the transnational nature of organised crime groups and the relational difficulties of international cooperation between national legal, political and law enforcement bodies.
Through close engagement with case studies, students will be supported to develop a realistic assessment of what the main threats of domestic organised crime are whilst critically reflecting on the ways in which these have and could be tackled.