Crime And Deviance

Question 1

Interactionist: subterranean values and techniques of neutralisation

Answer 1

-When we’re younger commit crime due to lack of responsibility, underage drinking taking drugs.
-loyalty to friends strategies to justify their actions

Question 2

Global crime: global risk society

Answer 2

BECK
massive demand for consumer goods and economic growth led to manufactured risks such as global warming which we are equally vulnerable

Question 3

Green crime: zemiology

Answer 3

WHITE
Def of crimes should relate to the notion of harm to nature rather than just humans or animal species. He criticised international laws aimed at protecting the environment because they are anthropocentric assume humanity has the right to exploit the environment allows corporates to shape law making processes so rarely consider long term effects

Question 4

Green crime: Irresponsible capitalist ideology

Answer 4

WHITE
Environmental laws that do exist are influenced by powerful transnational oil mineral and chemical companies and constructed in ways nah do not threaten their operations or profits.

Reluctant to legislate against translational corporations because these companies are economically powerful

Question 5

Global crime: Business networks and glocalisation

Answer 5

Castells and Robertson
-Seen as business networks to minimise risk and maximise profit base management and production in low risk areas which lack regulation while targeting their markets in more affluent areas
-Element of glocalisation eg local prices and the availability of drugs in any city depend on how efficiently global drug gangs can move drugs such as heroin around the world while avoiding detection. Local crimes like stealing are often to be able to get money for drugs
Also they’re business networks becuse globalisation has allowed knowledge as well as goods and people to move quickly easily cheaply across national borders.

Poly criminals commit several crimes at once