Global organised crime

Question 1

global organised crime

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the cross border activities of organised crime groups exploiting to their advantage and increasing global interconnections –> Franko Aas

Question 2

Involvment in

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• drug/human trafficing
• arms trading
• counterfitting and extortion
• wildlife crime
• kidnapping
• corruptio
• credit anf fraud
• identity theft/cyber crime
• money laundering

Question 3

only a fraction of global organised crime activites become known to law enforcement

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• In 2009, the UK estimates transational organised crime to be $870,000,000,000, which is 6X the worlds annual official development aid budget
• The worlds shadow economy may be as high as 10% of global GDP

Question 4

international responses to the problem of transnational organised crime has been slow, and is hampered by various factors such as:

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• diversity of the groups and the range of activities involved
• difficulties related to international co-oporation
• border issue and lack of common definitions

Question 5

Castells

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Sees organised crime groups as a type of business work, who actively take advantage of globalisation to expand in the same way as other global businesses -> crime has become globalised

Question 6

globalisation has created a global criminal economy

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estimated to be $3 million a year

Question 7

global criminal economy activity examples

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drug trafficing, human trafficing, arms trading, financial crime, cubercrime, counterfitting, wildlife crime

Question 8

Taylor

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globalisation of crime creates a grey area bewteen legitimate and illegitimate activities
- eg it is easy for elite groups to move profits around the world to avoid taxation

Question 9

Maguire - cybercrime should be seen as a new economy

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legitimate online platforms like Amazon offer opportunities for hackers to aquire data, sell illigitimate goods and services and lunder money
- legitimate companies profit from these activities, reducing the insentive to address the issue

Question 10

Blackburn et al

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global organised crime is closely interlinked with corruption within law enforcement agancies/government

Question 11

Glennely - global organised crime networks are refered to as mcmafia

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• highlights increase in activities in past 30 years
• caused by amit of globalisation, increasing technology and shifting balance of world power

Question 12

glocalisation

Answer 12

global organised crime can be seen as glocal (need to function in different local contexts)