Globalisation, Green Crime, Human Rights And State Crime

Question 1

Held

Answer 1

Globalisation of crime which is the interconnectedness of crime in the world through the breakdown of national boundaries has led to the spread of transnational organised crime

Question 2

Glenny

Answer 2

Argues that transnational organised crime started from the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. They guarded their wealth that they got from the fall of communism using mafias.

Question 3

South

Answer 3

Primary crimes which are crimes that result directly from the destruction and degradation of the earth resources such as pollution and deforestation while secondary crimes that result from disobeying environmental laws such as violence against environmental groups

Question 4

Evaluation of green crime

Answer 4

Because green crimes are not legally defined crimes, its hard to define what actions should be regarded as criminal or not.

Question 5

Green and ward

Answer 5

State crime is any “illegal or devianct activity perpetrated by or with the help of state agencies”

Question 6

Mclaughlin

Answer 6

Political crime like corruption
Crime by security and police forces like genocide
Economic crimes like violation of health and safety laws
Social and cultural crimes like institutional racism

Question 7

Straus

Answer 7

Example of state crime is Rwandan genocide is where the majority Hutus massacred over 800,000 tutsi in hundred days.

Question 8

Adorno

Answer 8

Argues that authoritarian personality where soldiers don’t feel responsible for the state crimes they commit because they are obeying someone in power such as the German Nazis with Hitler