Course Details
Country:
Italy
Institution:
Mason-Led: Florence Semester Experience at FUA
Course Title:
International Organized Crime
Course Number:
LACRIO250
Course Description:
This course aims at providing instruments of knowledge, analysis, and evaluation on the main international organized crime organizations as the various types of Italian, Russian, and Albanian mafia, South American Cartels, Chinese Triads, and Japanese Yakuza. Topics cover the identification of their historical, economic, political, and social causes as well as the factors that have produced and supported them and their contemporary markets. Students analyze the range of instruments and strategies to fight against illegal activities. An important focus of the course is to present the specific structural and phenomenological aspects of international mafia and criminal organizations and their role in global economies and politics, as well as a glance at some of the cultural languages through which these organizations have been narrated and represented.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
CRIM 490, INTS 399
Attachment Files:
_syllabus_LACRIO250_International Organized Crime.pdf
