Department of Languages, Literature and Culture, Queen’s University - Certificate in Organized Crime

The Certificate in Organized Crime Prevention Foundations program, offered in partnership by the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department at Queen's University and Queen’s IRC, provides vital knowledge and skills to identify, analyze and mitigate criminal activity. [...] Learning Objectives ■ Understand the scope of the impact of organized crime on a local, national and global scale ■ Acquire the analytical skills and tools for identifying criminal network infiltration ■ Identify legal strategies to detect and combat illegal activities ■ Discover how organized crime organizations network and collaborate ■ Determine what measures to take to deter criminal activitie. [...] 3 Tour of the Program M odule 1: Introduction to Organized Crime in Canada ■ Discover methods of defying organized crime ■ Understand the history of organized crime in Canada, with specific attention to ‘Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, and Hells Angels ■ Learn about the overt and covert influences of organized crime on Canadian society ■ Participate in small group discussions Module 2: Deconstructing Myt. [...] From Tradition to Innovation ■ Examine the globalization of organized crime ■ Discover how organized crime groups adapt to new environments ■ Review a case study 5 Lead Facilitators Antonio Nicaso Antonio Nicaso is a world-class expert on the subject of organized crime with more than 40 bestselling books to his credit. [...] He is also a lecturer at St., Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario, the Associate Director of the Italian School of Middlebury College, in Vermont, and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Italian Institute of Strategic Studies Nicolò Machiavelli.