Global Crime

Question 1

Franko Aas (2007)
- definition of global crime

Answer 1

The cross-border activities of organised crime groups taking advantage and increasing global interconnectedness

Question 2

4 examples of global crimes:

Answer 2

drug trafficking

money laundering

corruption

counterfeiting or extortion

Question 3

why is there a slow international response to organised crime?
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Answer 3

the groups are diverse and involved in a range of activities

there’s border issues and a lack of common definitions

lack of global attention

Question 4

Gastro (2013)

Answer 4

argues that state borders are irrelevant to global criminal organisations and so this makes them difficult to Track and Pursue

Question 5

Castles (2000)

Answer 5

sees organised crime groups as resembling business networks who link up with their criminal groups in other countries to minimise risk and maximises profit by targeting low risk areas with low regulation

Question 6

Robertson (1996£

Answer 6

stresses the importance of ‘glocal crime’ which is the intertwining of the global and the local, and the way in which local conditions impact on global phenomena