mylearningspace.wlu.ca ch + D2L Appendix B - UNDC-201-OCA - Transnational Organized Crime Dashboard Appendix B UNDC 201: ORGANIZED CRIME Appendix B Final Project The final project is a 1200 words minimum (1500 words maximum) paper designed to reflect upon larger course themes and their interconnections. It will be based on the specific prompts provided below. It requires you to integrate the various course materials into a bigger picture and consider what the major takeaways were for you personally now that you have completed the lessons and other course elements. We have explored many different issues on this course, including concepts, definitions, legal provisions, different types and methods as well as markets for organized criminal activities of organized criminal groups. Additionally, we have considered a number of examples of organized criminal groups. A recurring theme has been the complexity (legal and otherwise) and other challenges (such as operational and inter-agency/ inter-state cooperation) of bringing perpetrators of organized crime to justice. These challenges are starkly illustrated by the recent arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, an Italian Mafia boss of the infamous Cosa Nostra who had master-minded many heinous crimes including murder and bombings. As Italy's number one fugitive, he had been on the run and avoided arrest for over thirty years. For this final project you are required to: 1. Select your own real-life example as a case study illustrating challenges associated with bringing those engaged in organized crime (national or transnational) to justice. Briefly explain who you have selected and why. 2. Briefly describe the main types and/or methods of criminal activity of the person/organized criminal group that you have selected, specifically the crimes they are/were alleged to have committed. 3. Identify and examine at least some of the primary challenges associated with bringing the named person(s)/unnamed members of the organized criminal group you haveED v