globalisation, green crime, human rights and state crime Flashcards
causes of globalisation
spread of ict
influe of global mass media
cheap air travel
deregulation of financial markets
easier movem so that businesses can easily relocate countries 4 profit
global criminal economy
G creates new opport 4 cr wh means new cr committ
global crim economy has a supply and demand side
transnational organised cr due to its demand in west ie. money laundering, drugs trade, trafficking in wom/childr
risk soc; accord to beck, risks increasingly human made than posed by nature
risks increasingly global leading beck describing late mod soc as global risk soc
global risk consciousness
globalisation plays role in what we perceive as risk
e. asylum seeks, contr/laws at borders causes them to illegally come in and when caught seen as crim
media creates moral panic about asylum seekers b on global level
they see peop fr lower economic count as a threat
globalisation capitalism and crime
taylor; G has created cr at both ends of spectrum
has allowed transnational corporations to switch manufacturing to low wage count wh prod job insecurity, unemployment and poverty
deregulation has allowed deregulated services to outcast their production into lower econ class by G
they then commit cr like x paying min wage/regulating health condit
knock on eff, peop in those poorer count commit cr as they need money etc
moveme of factories means low work for peop in developed count causing poorer peop to commit cr
crimes of globalisation
rothe/friedricks; examine role of IMF/world bank
organisat dominated by maj capitalist states ex. usa, britain, france who hole 1/3 voting rights
arg bodies impose pro capitalist ‘structural adjustment programmes’ on poor count as 4 loans provided
progr req governm to cut back spending on health/education
allows western corporations to expand into these count wh creates condit for cr
ex. rwanda genocide
glocal organisations
new form of organisations sometimes have international links esp w drug trade
b cr still rooted w local context
ex. indiv still needs local contacts /networks to find opport and sell drugs
tf cr is glocal sys as locally based b w global connections
changes assoc w G have led to changes in patterns of cr
how. conclu can’t be generalisable to oth crim activities elsewhere
green crime - global risk soc and the environment
beck arg increase in production/technology that sustains resources for all creates new ‘manufactured risks’ wh many inclu risk to harm to environ
ex. russian wildfire trigg hottest heatwave causing shortage in grain
world price of grain increased, knock on eff in mozambique wh led to costs of bread increasing wh sparked riots/looting as own harvests were damaged due to drought
green criminology
green criminol/zemiology; beh that causes harm
trad criminol have clear ex of green cr as these r bas off beh that breaks the law how. their ex are limited and oft in favour of powerful grps who harmful beh is lawful
ex. pollution of ganges river in india
green criminology - two views of harm
def of harm that state/transnational companies adopt reason y beh that harm environ x crim
they have anthropocentric view wh focuses on human element, acts fine as long as no conseq to human life
zemiologists have pro centric view as see humans + environment as interdependent
whatever harms the environment will eventually harm humans as we are all part of one ecosys
