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Globalisation Flashcards

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1
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What is globalisation

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The growing interdependence of societies across the world

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What types of crimes are increasingly global and transnational

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Corporate

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Corporate crime

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Crimes committed by a company

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Example of corporate crime

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A business entity having a separate legal personality

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What are corporate crimes

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Increasingly global and transnational

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How are new types of crime being carried out

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Through growing globalisation and global communications

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Disadvantage of globalisation of crime

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Crimes committed in one country may have its perpetrators located in another country - mo cooperation between states

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Karofi and mwanza year

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2006

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Korofi and mwanza

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Global crimes include the international drug trade

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10
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The international illegal drug trade

Who estimated it

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United Nations

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The international illegal drug trade

How much was it estimated by

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$321 billion

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The international illegal drug trade

What did it provide

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Drugs that are available in local communities in the U.K.

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The international illegal drug trade

What addiction is responsible for acquisitive crime

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Drug

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14
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The international illegal drug trade

Acquisitive crime

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Theft

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The international illegal drug trade

How suggested that half of all recorded crime in England and Wales was drug related

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Audit commission

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The international illegal drug trade

Audit commission year

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2002

17
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The international illegal drug trade

Audit commission

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Half of all recorded crime in England and Wales was drug related

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Human trafficking

What is it

A

Illegal movement and smuggling of people for a variety of purposes

19
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Money laundering

What is it

A

Concerned with making money that has been obtained illegally

20
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Money laundering

How does it launder ‘dirty money’

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Through modern communications technology

21
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Money laundering

What happens to dirty money

A

It is moved around the world electronically

22
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Money laundering

Why is it hard to track the money by law enforcement

A

As it is moved electronically it is difficult to track the sources of money

23
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Cybercrime

What is it

A

Criminal acts committed with the help of commutation and information technology predominantly the internet

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Cybercrime

How are they global

A

Many online frauds, illegal porn, hacking identity and networking have their offenders outside the uk

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Cybercrime

Examples

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Internet based frauds
Child pornography
Paedophilia
Hacking identity

26
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Globalisation and crime

Taylor

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Links global crime to the way the capitalist system has developed

27
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Globalisation and crime

Transnational corporations

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Companies that operate across national borders

28
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Globalisation and crime

Two important features

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Rise of Transnational corporations

Deregulation of financial and other markets

29
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Globalisation and crime

Effects of tnc

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Moving production to cheap labour areas has produced widespread exploitation

30
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Globalisation and crime

What has tnc contributed to in the U.K.

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Deindustrialisation

31
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Globalisation and crime

Deindustrialisation

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Manufacturing jobs have disappeared

32
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Globalisation and crime

How has crime increased

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With industrialisation people seek illegitimate ways of reaching success goals in society

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