Globalisation Flashcards
What is globalisation
The growing interdependence of societies across the world
What types of crimes are increasingly global and transnational
Corporate
Corporate crime
Crimes committed by a company
Example of corporate crime
A business entity having a separate legal personality
What are corporate crimes
Increasingly global and transnational
How are new types of crime being carried out
Through growing globalisation and global communications
Disadvantage of globalisation of crime
Crimes committed in one country may have its perpetrators located in another country - mo cooperation between states
Karofi and mwanza year
2006
Korofi and mwanza
Global crimes include the international drug trade
The international illegal drug trade
Who estimated it
United Nations
The international illegal drug trade
How much was it estimated by
$321 billion
The international illegal drug trade
What did it provide
Drugs that are available in local communities in the U.K.
The international illegal drug trade
What addiction is responsible for acquisitive crime
Drug
The international illegal drug trade
Acquisitive crime
Theft
The international illegal drug trade
How suggested that half of all recorded crime in England and Wales was drug related
Audit commission
The international illegal drug trade
Audit commission year
2002
The international illegal drug trade
Audit commission
Half of all recorded crime in England and Wales was drug related
Human trafficking
What is it
Illegal movement and smuggling of people for a variety of purposes
Money laundering
What is it
Concerned with making money that has been obtained illegally
Money laundering
How does it launder ‘dirty money’
Through modern communications technology
Money laundering
What happens to dirty money
It is moved around the world electronically
Money laundering
Why is it hard to track the money by law enforcement
As it is moved electronically it is difficult to track the sources of money
Cybercrime
What is it
Criminal acts committed with the help of commutation and information technology predominantly the internet
Cybercrime
How are they global
Many online frauds, illegal porn, hacking identity and networking have their offenders outside the uk
Cybercrime
Examples
Internet based frauds
Child pornography
Paedophilia
Hacking identity
Globalisation and crime
Taylor
Links global crime to the way the capitalist system has developed
Globalisation and crime
Transnational corporations
Companies that operate across national borders
Globalisation and crime
Two important features
Rise of Transnational corporations
Deregulation of financial and other markets
Globalisation and crime
Effects of tnc
Moving production to cheap labour areas has produced widespread exploitation
Globalisation and crime
What has tnc contributed to in the U.K.
Deindustrialisation
Globalisation and crime
Deindustrialisation
Manufacturing jobs have disappeared
Globalisation and crime
How has crime increased
With industrialisation people seek illegitimate ways of reaching success goals in society
