Transnational Organized Crime Studies, Advanced Certificate
Program Coordinator: Dr. Rosemary Barberet
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 in drugs, counterfeit medicine, and humans; transnational predatory crimes such as cross-border 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 seek employment at public or private international organizations.
This is a stand-alone certificate at the graduate level. A student may pursue the advanced certificate independent of a master’s program or while pursuing a John Jay master’s degree. This advanced certificate is registered with the New York State Education Department and awarded by John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
This certificate may also be completed fully online.
Program Codes:
IRP Program Code: 38351
HEGIS Code: 2105.00
CIP Code: 43.0114
Requirements for the Advanced Certificate
Required Course
| ICJ 706 | Transnational and Cyber Organized Crime | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 3 |
Electives
Students must choose and complete three courses:
| ICJ 705 | Human Rights and Counterterrorism | 3 |
| ICJ 725 | Environmental Crime | 3 |
| ICJ 726 | Drug Trafficking | 3 |
| ICJ 760 | Countering Transnational and Cyber Organized Crime | 3 |
| ICJ 729 | Organized Crime: An International Perspective | 3 |
| ICJ 730 | Human Trafficking in the Digital Age | 3 |
| ICJ 755 | Terrorism and Transnational Crime | 3 |
| ICJ 762 | Corruption and the Global Economy | 3 |
| CRJ 713 | White-Collar Crime | 3 |
| CRJ 727/FCM 727 | Cybercriminology | 3 |
| CRJ 784 | Organized Crime | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 9 |
Total Credit Hours: 12
For additional information about this program, please contact Graduate Admissions at 212.237.8863 or
graduateadmissions@jjay.cuny.edu.