Globalisation Flashcards
What is globalisation?
Refers to the increased interconnectedness of societies, so what happens in one locality is shaped by distant events in another. It is caused by he spread of new ideas ad media technologies, cheap flights, travel, mass tourism and migration and increased number of multi-national corporations
What does Castells say about globalisation?
The global criminal economy is worth over 1 trillion a year
What are the 3 types of global corporate crime?
1- Tax fraud, financial crimes
2- Sweatshops
3- Green crime
GCC
Tax fraud, financial crimes
Radical criminologists- wealthy, powerful influence law
- no law exists that would criminalise their activities
Starbucks, Amazon, headquarters elsewhere
Taylor- globalisation has made it easier to move funds an profits, more opportunities to launder- avoid tax
GCC
Sweatshops
Base factories in poorer developing countries, less production costs, exploitation of workers, health an safety regulations- Nike
Taylor- increase domestic crime=more crime in UK
- Relative deprivation (LR) in the West, unemployment (PM)
X no actually criminal
GCC
Green crime
Marx- transnational corporations responsible
- hard to police, shaped by powerful, laws not all agree on
White- take an ecocentric view not anthropocentric
South- primary and secondary green crime
What are the 2 types of global organised crime?
1- Drug trafficking
2- People trafficking
GOC
Drug trafficking
Hobbs and Dunningham- ‘glocal’ based local, global connections
- more people and goods, more chances for drugs to be smuggled
- Afghanistan heroine, huge potential profits
- drugs grown in South American and Middle Eastern countires
How can we criticise drug trafficking as a result of globalisation?
Special forces to stop this
- work with other countries to prevent/arrest
- beneficial
- enabled due to globalisation
GOC
People trafficking
Adults- prostitution, forced labour, organ harvesting
Children- illegal adoption, forced marriage, soldiers
- easier due to greater travel and movement
UN- one of the fastest growing global crimes
Global cybercrime
One of the fastest growing- financial scams, hack, virus, attack, stalk, identity theft, religious/racial hatred
How can we criticise global cyber crime?
X people becoming more aware
X more in place to stop it
X growing awareness
International terrorism
Social media- recruited to extremist organisations
- travel across world to fight/train for terrorist acts
ISIS use SM to recruit new members
- globalisation creating an us and them mentality
- oppose the spread of Western ideas
