Globalisation and Crime

Question 1

What is globalisation?

Answer 1

David et al: “widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness”

Question 2

What is economic globalisation?

Answer 2

Global trade, increasing movement of goods and services between countries and transnational corporations

Question 3

What is cultural globalisation?

Answer 3

More communication between people from different cultures, “hybrid cultures”

Question 4

What does Castells say ?

Answer 4

• there is a global criminal economy worth over 1 trillion per annum

Question 5

What are examples of global crimes ?

Answer 5

• Human Trafficking
• Terrorism
• Drugs Trade
• Money Laundering
• Sex trafficking
• Cybercrimes

Question 6

Link between economic globalisation and global crime?

Answer 6

• economic globalisation= increased amounts of global trade and money, and spread of international division of labour, according to Marxists increased inequality between rich and poor

Question 7

Further links between economic globalisation and globalised crime?

Answer 7

• increasing amounts of trade of goods across international borders and countries taxing goods such as alcohol and cigarettes = increasing amounts of smuggling of high taxed products
• Organised criminal network such as the McMafia smuggle cigarettes and alcohols from countries where they are cheaply produced to countries where they are highly taxed e.g. the UK

Question 8

What are Marxists viewpoint regarding global crimes ?

Answer 8

• argue criminal networks are not the only ones in global economic crimes but transnational corporations

• more difficult to trace their role in global crime as they commit crimes such as “ law evasion” rather than actual crimes

Question 9

What does Ian Taylor argue?

Answer 9

• globalisation has led to changes in the extent of crime
• giving free reign to market forces globalisation has created greater inequality and rising rates

Question 10

What is Marxists “ Elitist crime”

Answer 10

• globalisation creates criminal opportunities for elite and TNCs
• e.g. movement of money around the world via the internet in order to avoid taxation

Question 11

Becks “ Risk Society”

Answer 11

• people are risk “ conscious” due to risks no longer being within a national border
• people are “scared” of immigrants globally because they might take their jobs