CRIME AND DEVIANCE TOPIC 8: GLOBALISATION, GREEN CRIME, HUMAN RIGHTS AND STATE CRIME Flashcards
what is globalisation?
-The widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of life from cultural to the criminal, the financial to the spiritual.
types of crimes:
- Money laundry: making dirty money clean through shell businesses (capital is London)
- Drug growth and use
- Sexploitation, grooming, etc
- Cyber terrorism (global terrorism through internet)
- Human trafficking
what are some causes of globalisation?
- global mass media
- new technology
- easier movement of businesses
- cheap air travel
-deregulation of financial and other markets
according to HELD, what causes the spread of transnational organised crime?
-globalisation created new opportunities for crime through offences and means
-> increasing connectedness across national borders has led to new offences, such as cyber crime
according to CASTELLS, what is the value of the global criminal economy?
-argues that there is a global crime economy which is worth £1 trillion per annum.
Global crimes:
-These all contribute to the global crime economy:
->human trafficking for women and children, often liked to prostitution or slavery. 1/2 million people trafficked to Western Europe annually.
->the drugs trade £300-400 billion annually at street prices.
->smuggling of illegal immigrants e.g the Chinese Triads make and estimated 2.5 billion annually.
->Sex tourism: westerners travel to Third World countries for sex, sometimes involving minors.
Which countries make up the demand side of the global economy?
The rich west have a high scale of transnational crime.
Use an example to highlight how the supply side of global crime is linked to the globalisation process.
Third world drug producing countries such as Columbia is where crime is an attractive opportunity that offers little investment in technology and commands high prices.
Use an example to explain what is meant by ‘risk consciousness’.
-risk is seen as global rather than tied to particular places e.g increased movement of people as economic migrants seeking work and asylum seekers seeking refuge.
