Globalisation

Question 1

Globalisation: what happens in one locality is shaped by…

Answer 1

distant events and vice versa. EG: Chernobyl

Question 2

The six causes of globalisation?

1. new info
2. communication
3. m.m.
4. cheapies
5. deregulation
6. competition

Answer 2

1) SPREAD OF NEW INFORMATION
2) COMMUNICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES (ICT)
3) INFLUENCE of the MASS MEDIA
4) CHEAP AIR TRAVEL
5) DEREGULATION of FINANCIAL and other markets
6) more COMPETITION

Question 3

Which socio claimed that there has been a ‘globalisation of crime’?

Answer 3

HELD ET AL

Question 4

Definition of the ‘globalisation of crime’?

Answer 4

Globalisation of crime refers to the INCREASING INTERCONNECTEDNESS of CRIME ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS

Question 5

Globalisation has brought about the spread of (TOC)

Answer 5

TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED crime

Question 6

Example of one of the new offences that Globalisation has created?

Answer 6

CYBER CRIMES

Question 7

What does Manuel Castells (1998) argue?

Answer 7

That there is now a GLOBAL CRIMINAL ECONOMY worth over £1 TRILLION per annum.

Question 8

Examples of how the CRIMINAL ECONOMY makes money? (3)

Answer 8

1) The drugs trade (estimated $300-400b at street prices per year
2) Cyber crimes (like eidentity theft)
3) Money Laundering ($1.5 trillion a year)

Question 9

One of the reasons why the scale of TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIME is so huge is because

Answer 9

of the DEMAND for its PRODUCTS and SERVICES in the rich West.

Question 10

The supply side of the GLOBAL CRIMINAL ECONOMY?

Answer 10

• SOURCE OF DRUGS

- SEX WORKERS

Question 11

This supply from the global criminal economy is linked to the GLOBALISATION process. How?

Answer 11

Third -world countries that produce drugs (Columbia) have a large population of peasants. Therefore, DRUG CULTIVATION is an attractive process.

Question 12

Why is DRUG CULTIVATION an attractive option for peasants in third world-drug producing countries?

Answer 12

• little investment
• little need of technology
• high prices compared with crops

Question 13

20% of the population in Columbia depends on…

Answer 13

the cocaine production for their livelihood.

Question 14

Globalisation produces a new mentality of ‘RISK CONSCIOUSNESS’. What does this mean?

Answer 14

means that risk is seen as GLOBAL rather than tied to particular places (eg. economic mirgants)

Question 15

results of the ‘risk consciousness’?

Answer 15

1) Social control is intensified nationally (eg. UK has toughened its BORDER CONTROL REGULATIONS)
2) States with land borders have introduced FENCES

Question 16

Globalisation has produced job insecurity and poverty by…

Answer 16

allowing TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS to SWITCH MANUFACTURING to low-wage countries.

Question 17

Globalisation has undermined social cohesion by..

Answer 17

Marketisation. People now see themselves as INDIVIDUAL CONSUMERS , calculating personal costs and benefits of each action

Question 18

Deregulation is caused by glob. problem of deregulation?

Answer 18

GOV has little control over THEIR OWN ECONOMIES (to create jobs/raise taxes)

Question 19

Globalisations main causes for crime?

Answer 19

INSECURITY and INEQUALITY

Question 20

How do elite groups like the EU have criminal opportunities?

Answer 20

They have opportunities for FRAUDULENT CLAIMS for subsidies+