NCJ Number
177150
Journal
Trends in Organized Crime Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Dated: Winter 1998 Pages: 2-43
Date Published
1998
Length
42 pages
Annotation
These six papers provide an overview and edited versions of major papers presented at an international conference held in 1997 to consider actions to complement the law enforcement approach of governments to address organized crime and corruption.
Abstract
The conference was organized by CIVITAS International of Strasbourg and the National Strategy Information Center in Washington, D.C., in association with the Instituto Para La Promocion De La Cultura Civica of Mexico City. The major recommendations of the conference were to examine culture and grassroots prevention to augment the law enforcement approach and to use school-based education as one of the most important ways to reach children, and through them their parents and the local community. Other papers presented model programs that appear to be effective. These include the moral education packages that the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong has produced for elementary and secondary schools, anti-Mafia projects in elementary and secondary schools in Sicily, and activist education in the United States and Russia to empower students and promote the rule of law. Another paper noted that Mexico is like other countries in that it currently lacks programs and curricula that explicitly address corruption and organized crime. Figures, tables, reference notes, and reference lists