Transnational Organized Crime: Identifying Criminal Actors and Markets
Channel: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Date: 2020-12-14

Session Objectives:
• Review the Palermo Convention’s definition of an organized criminal group and analyze who counts as an organized criminal.
• Conceptually distinguish between organized/unorganized crime, legitimacy/illegitimacy, and licit/illicit economies.
• Become familiar with the ENACT Organized Crime Index’s typology of criminal actors (state-embedded, criminal networks, foreign, and mafia-style) and understand some of the common strategic challenges that arise for African states in relation to these actors (namely, dismantling collusion between criminal networks and state-embedded actors).
• Consider the spatial reach of various criminal markets across Africa and TOC actors’ adaptability in their use of different markets to evade sanction.

More on the Academic Webinar Series, “Professional Development for Countering Transnational Organized Crime”, including the presenters:
https://africacenter.org/programs/2020-ctoc-webinar-series/

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