Globalisation

Question 1

What did Casteus find? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 1

The criminal global economy is worth £1 trillion per year

Question 2

Why is drug trafficking common? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 2

Places such as Afghanistan would rather sell illegal crops because the profits are much higher

Question 3

What is the drug trade like in Columbia? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 3

Cocaine outsells all other exports combined

Question 4

How many drug related deaths per year in the USA? (globalisation crime)

Answer 4

52,000

Question 5

Why has people trafficking been on the rise? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 5

Perceived better quality of life, paid to move to specific areas and then passports taken away

Question 6

Why is global crime hard to police? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 6

International laws are ill defined and international criminal justice agencies do not have global power to catch criminals

Question 7

What do Marxists suggest about globalisation? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 7

TNC’s also commit global crime, but it is ignored

Question 8

What does Taylor suggest about globalisation? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 8

Globalisation has made it easier for TNC’s to commit crime e.g tax avasion

Question 9

What do post modernists argue about globalisation? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 9

Global crime has created new anxieties - a risk consciousness e.g terrorism

Question 10

What did Hobbs and Cunningham suggest? (Globalisation crime)

Answer 10

They used the term ‘glocal’ to describe the increase in crime based locally, with global connections