Globalisation & Crime

Question 1

Deterritorialisation

Answer 1

Activities are no longer attached to specific countries but stretch across globe

Question 2

Glocalism (hobbs & dunningham)

Answer 2

Crime is local but with global connections (drug trades, estimated 322b a year)

Question 3

Castells

Answer 3

• “matrix of global crime” as criminals gain money and have to launder it (another crime)
• globalisation has created more routes and motivations for crime

Question 4

Farr

Answer 4

2 main forms of global crime:
- established and modern mafia who take advantage of globalisation (connecting with Russians etc)
- newer organised crime (may be online etc)

Question 5

Detica

Answer 5

Financial cybercrime costs uk 27b a year

Question 6

Glenny (mcmafia)

Answer 6

• globalised crime mirrors activities like tncs (McDonalds) who seek to spread their homogeneous product over the world to make money —> people in all countries desire some sort of criminal gains

Question 7

Global risk society (beck)

Answer 7

• seeing more of the outside globalised world makes us feel threatened by scale and pace of change
• people want to preserve what they’ve got (trump) —> fuels hate crime