Globalisation and Crime Flashcards
What impact has globalisation had on crime and deviance today? (3)
New types of crime
New laws and forms of surveillance put into place.
Led to greater conflict - crimes take place on a global scale.
What does the acronym DRUGS stand for?
Demand and supply
Resources
Underground
Glamourisation
Symbolic status
How does crime relate to globalisation?
Castells argues that globalisation has led to a global crime economy and there are new opportunities for crime and new types of crime have emerged.
What are crimes that have increased due to globalisation? (3)
Tax evasion
Corporate crime
Drug trade.
How could the international trade in illegal drugs or illegal human trafficking generate more crime in society? (2)
It would increase crime in young w/c peeople.
Women will go onto sex crime (prostitution) and end up homeless.
How does Stacey Dooley’s investigation link to globalisation and crime? (2)
Glocalisation - mothers organise their supplu and existing criminals connect to continue their activities.
It is cyber crime because men from different countries pay for this to happen and it is harder to find them because they can stay anonymous.
What are the effects on globalisation and crime? (4)
Global risk consciousness
More criminal opportunities
McMafia
Growing inequality.
What is global risk consciousness?
Beck: people become more risk conscious and fearful of things like international terrorism.
What is growing inequality?
Taylor: globalisation creates new patterns of inequalities and the winners are rich people and the losers are workers in developing countries.
What are more criminal opportunities?
The internet and fast international travel gives people more opportunities for new types og crimes.
What is McMafia?
New organised crime groups have emerged.
Glenny: the term McMafia is used to describe the way transnational prganised crime mirrors the activities of legal transnational corporations like Mcdonalds.
