Globalisation Flashcards
What is globalisation?
HEID AND MCGREW- Growing interconnectedness of societies. Deterritorilisation of crime.
Transnational Crime
GLENNY - McMafia
Arose after disintegration of soviet bloc, officials could still buy oil for 1/40th world price and sell on, as disintegrate criminal capitalist class join with mafia to protect wealth. soviet mafia and business established on the international stage.
Chechen mafia brand name, franchised out.
FARR- Move from established mafia to new criminal organisations, more loose knit.
HOBBS AND DUNNIGHAM - global criminal network is a set of interdependent local groups reliant on international supply. Glocal organisation. Deindustrilisation means loose groups involved in legit and illegit activites.
CASTELL - Criminal groups are now global, not localised.
What are the effects of Globalisation?
Policing is harder
New crimes (cyber crime) MALCOLMS AND PLUMMER new worlds of crime.
New ways to commit (on the web/24hr banks)
Less risk as harder to identify.
YOUNG - Global consumer market, increases bulimic society and encourages shift to crime.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND - consumer advertising increases desire for products and a better life, more market for illegal trafficking. Drugs rd world supply, 1st world demand.
Individualism
Bauman - Less welfare state, increased self reliance, more crime.
TAYLOR - More individual choices, individual seen as greater than society so commit crime.
BECK
Global risk society, more uncertainty as even less control, hard to even identify threat. Moral panic against anyone different, create hate crimes etc.
UASH AND URRY- Disorganised capitalism - less regulations and control. make in one nation, sell to another.
TAYLOR - this increases job insecurity and unemployment in west encouraging crime. Companies exploit labour force and break labour laws.
Global Crime
HEID ET AL - New opportunities for crime. Not constricted by national borders.
CASTELLS - Global criminal activity worth $1 trillion annually.
1/2m people trafficked a year
£1.1trillion laundered a year
DETICA- Cyber crime fastest growing, cost the Uk 26bn a year.
Drugs 322bn annually.
