Globalisation Flashcards
What is globalisation?
Widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness.
What is deterritoralization?
Increasing number of social, political and economic activities are no longer attached to specific countries but are transnational and stretched across globe.
What does Castells argue?
Globalization has led a global criminal economy, in which new opportunities for crime and new types of crime have emerged such as illegal trade in weapons
How is led to increase in crime
- New variety of crimes: e.g. Drugs trafficking, cyber crime, money laundering
- Enables old crimes to be transformed: poor countries supply, rich countries demand.
- At risk society and have risk consciousness and place blame. Such as large restriction on immigration
Impacts
- Social intensification- isolating due to fear: e.g. Tighter immigration
- Have great knowledge of these risk through media
- However easy to exaggerate impact of globalisation
- May also have affected other parts of the world than others; depends on law enforcement services
Transnational organised crime
Has been able to develop or start up
New means of committing crimes
Mcmafias- led to rises in food so new rises in mafias
Glocal organisations
Local organisations are able to commit new levels of crime, individuals act as a hub linking around the world
Sunderland study
New type and more bouncers to control clubs due to global contexts meaning there was increased drug problems.
How globalisation has affected crime
- Growing inequality: exploitation with under developing countries from Western countries. Divide creates crime due to relative deprivation (left realists).
- More opportunities for crime: More way to communicate
- Higher individualisation: often left to find own solutions and don’t all have moral guidances
Difficult to find
Green crime (environmental crime)
Crimes or harm done to environment or animals
Adding to global risk society; oil spillages, food chain upset
Green criminology (transgressive criminology)
More of a radical outlook
Harm done
Trangressive criminology better as looks at other notions of crime, although criticised for making value judgements
Argue approach similar to marxists to use power to oppose
Anthrocentric
Humans have right to do what they want
Environmentalcentrism
Environment and humans should work together
Who commits green crime?
State and government: military worst cause
Organised crime
Individuals
Private business organisations (most likely)
Victims of green crime
Everyone, particularly minority countries. Developed dump waste there and they can’t afford to dispose of it