Crime, Terror and the Environment

Crime, Terror and the Environment

Lifelong Learning | Available (Membership Required)

9000 Babcock Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15237 United States

PSC 101

7/11/2024-8/8/2024

1:00 PM-2:30 PM EDT on Th

This course integrates criminal justice, national security studies, political science, and natural sciences in a study of globalization’s influence on international crime and terrorism that is linked to the natural environment.  Subjects including resource scarcity, pollution, desertification, species elimination, and climate change will be explored by examining their effects on communities that are linked to the world’s ecosystems.  The main focus will be on the increasing power and danger of global crime and terror organizations and how they use the natural environment as a target for their illegal activities.

Mike McKeown is a recently retired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Supervisory Special Agent . He joined the FBI in 1997 and worked the majority of his career on cyber investigations for the FBI.  His cyber work for the FBI included working as a Cyber Assistant Legal Attache in Ukraine and at the European Union’s Europol Center in The Hague, Netherlands.  Following his retirement from the FBI, Mr. McKeown became an Assistant Professor at La Roche University.