Advanced Certificate in Transnational Organized Crime Studies
Advanced Certificate in Transnational Organized Crime Studies (ACTOCS)
The Advanced Certificate in Transnational Organized Crime Studies (ACTOCS) offers advanced instruction on the nature, dynamics, causes, and control of those crime phenomena that pose a challenge to more than one country and call for international cooperation. It examines the nature and etiology of established as well as emerging transnational organized criminal groups and criminal activities. The focus is on illegal cross-border trade such as the trafficking of drugs, counterfeit medicine, and humans; transnational predatory crimes such as serial burglary; international environmental crimes; money laundering, corruption, and cybercrime; networks of offenders involved in these crimes and their terrestrial and virtual mobility; and factors that facilitate and shape transnational crime, including technology, international travel, trade, and migration.
This advanced certificate program is appropriate for students who wish to engage in research, join law enforcement agencies at national or international levels, or see employment at public or private organizations. If you are intersted, please see further information here.
Curriculum
Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of how criminal structures and illegal activities transcend international boarders
- Demonstrate knowledge if international legal and institutional frameworks for responding to transnational organized crime
- Think critically about potential solutions for transnational crime and develop theoretically grounded and evidence-based policy solutions that integrate interdisciplinary knowledge
- Be able to classify and analyze transnational organized crime phenomena
- Be able to critically assess the validity and reliability of data on transnational crime
- Demonstrate knowledge of private sector, public private and civil society responses to transnational crime and identify best practices in this field
- Gain knowledge about less common form, as well as emerging new forms of transnational crime
This is a stand-alone certificate at the graduate level. A student may pursue the advanced certificate independent of a master's degree or while pursuing a John Jay master's degree. Students who successfully complete the program are awarded a New York State Educational Department certificate.
Application Information
Students pursuing the standalone ACTOCS certificate must apply through Graduate Admissions: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/admissions/graduate-admissions
Students admitted to the Master of Arts Degree Program in International Crime and Justice may complete the ACTOCS certificate as part of their program requirements (ICJ706 and three ACTOCS electives).
Required Course (3 credits)
ICJ 706 Transnational Crime
Electives (9 credits)
ICJ 705 Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
ICJ 725 Environmental Crime
ICJ 726 Drug Trafficking
ICJ 729 Organized Crime: An International Perspective
ICJ 730 Human Trafficking
ICJ 755 Terrorism and Transnational Crime
ICJ 762 Corruption and the Global Economy
CRJ 713 White Collar Crime
CRJ/FCM 727 Cyber Criminology
CRJ 784 Organized Crime
SEC 727 Information Technology and Cybercrime
Program Coordinator of the Advanced Certificate in Transnational Organized Crime Studies (ACTOCS)
Rosemary Barberet, PhD
Professor
Department of Sociology
Office: Haaren Hall 520.15
Phone: 212-237-8676
Email: rbarberet@jjay.cuny.edu
Faculty Website: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/rosemary-barberet
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