globalisation

Question 1

Manuel Castelles (1998)

Answer 1

there is now a global crime economy worth over £1 trillion per annum - explains exploitation and poverty. Goods + services are demanden in the west 53% of Columbias population are reliant on cocaine

Question 2

Waters (2001)

Answer 2

Globalisation is the increasing interconnectedness of societies caused by deleopment of tecknology and cheap air travel

Question 3

difficulties when investigating global crime

Answer 3

• it is dificult to investigate the precise extent of global crime
• sociologists are over reliant on secondary resources e.g. intepol and europol which might exaggerate the problem in order to justify extra funding.
• primary sociological research into global crime can be dangerous
• no accurate way the value or cost can be estimated

Question 4

Ian Taylor (1997) - socialist

Answer 4

Globalisation has free rein in nmarket forces.
Greater inequalities has contributed to the changing patterns and extent of crime.

Question 5

left realists

Answer 5

increasingly materialistic culture promoted by the global media portraying success in terms of a lifestyle consumption - relative depravation

Question 6

Hobbs and Dunningham

Answer 6

the way crime is organised is linked to the economic changes brought about by globalisation.
involves oportunistic entrepreneurial individuals with conacts working as a ‘hub’ intergrating legitimate and illegitimate activities. this contrasts with the large scale mafia type gangs in the past.
‘glocal system’ locally based with global connections

Question 7

Misha Glenny (2008)

Answer 7

refers to the organisations with arose in Russia and Eastern Europe following the fall of communism to be ‘Mcmafia’ Under communism the state regulated the price of everything following the fall of cummmunism sectors of the econamy were deregulated except for natrual resource. these commodities were often sold at 1/40 of the world market price by selling these goods abroad Russias new capitalist class arose