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globalisation, green crime, human rights and state crime Flashcards

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Globalisation refers to

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The increasing connectedness of sources of societies, one locality is shaped by different events

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Causes of globalisation

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New into, mass media cheap air travel, movement of business

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Held

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Globalisation of crime spread, of transnational organised

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Castell

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Global criminal economy worth over 1 trillion per year e.g

  1. Arms trafficking to illegal groups such as terroist
  2. Smuggling of illegal immigrants (Chinese triads 2.5 million)
  3. Trafficking wi,en and children/body parts in China
  4. Green crimes such as dumping toxic waste
  5. Drug trade worth 490 billion
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Supply and demand

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Demand from the rich west, couldn’t function without the supply side e.g. drugs. Linked to globalisation e.g. third world comes from poverty in Columbia cocaine outsells all other experts combined

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Global risk consciousness

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Risk is now seen as gimbal and not tied to one place e.g. fear of asylum seekers. Our knowledge of risk comes from the media “moral panic”
E.g. asylum seekers seen as scrounges led to a risk in hate crimes
Results in intense social control e.g. tougher border control air line fines
Increased international cooperation

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Taylor: capitalism

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Globalisation has led fo changes in the pattern of crime
Allowed corporations to switch manufacturing to low wage countries producing poverty. This widens inequalities and encourages people to turn to crime e.g. LA de-industrialisation has led to growth of drugs gangs
Also creates opportunities for elite groups e.g. moving of funds and avoiding tax. Led to new patterns of unemployment “flexible workers”, working less than mini mum wag

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A03 Taylor capitalism

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Does not explain how the changes make people behave in criminal ways e.g. not all poor people commit crimes

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Crimes of globalisation

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Rothe and friedrichs: world bank 188 countries, yet 5 hold over 1/3 of rioting rights

These bodies impose pro-capitalist programme on poor countries for loans they provide e.g. at spending on education creates conditions for crime

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Patterns of criminal organisation

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Hobbs and Dunnigham:the way crime is organised is linked to economic changes brought by globalisation
Individuals with contacts a “hub” with other individuals looking for opportunities
This contacts with large scale hierarchal “mafia” crime

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Glocal organisation

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Crime is still rooted in local context
Still locally based but has global connections
H&D argue Graf crime has shifted from rigid hierarchy structures to flexible and entrepreneurial criminal

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Mc mafia (Glenny)

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Glenny: organisations that emerged in Russia after the fall of communism
Linked to the break up of the Soviet Union and deregulation of global markets
Gov no longer regulated prices of everything
Those with money could buy diamonds, oils etc at low costs and sell them on for huge profit
These people would turn to the mafia to help them protect their wealth
Able to move their money out of the country and make connections globally

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What is the definition of globalisation

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Crime against the environment.

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Why is it a global problem. Give an example

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Is it a global problem as much green crime can be linked to globalisation and increasing inter connectedness of societies

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global risk society

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most threats to humans are now human made compared to drought and famine.

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Beck

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increase in productivity has new “manufactured” risks e.g. global warming-effects people globally “global risk society”

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example of how the global nature of human-made risk can produce crime and disorder

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Russia-triggered heatwave and fires- destroyed grain belt-rose the prices in Mozambique and triggered looting .

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traditional criminology

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not concerned as no law has been broken. follow international laws e.g. the definition of environmental crime as an omission

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advantages to traditional criminology

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clear defined subject matter

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disadvantages of traditional criminology

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accept definitions made by powerful groups

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green criminology

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notion of harm” rather than law. “transgressive criminology” overstep boundaries of traditional criminology to include new issues. this study is also known as zeminology (study of harm). different countries have different laws, cannot provide consistent standard of harm. agree with Marxists that powerful groups can decline in exploitive ways.

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two views of harm

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anthropocentric-humans have the right to dominate nature and put economic growth first

Ecocentric- humans and environmental are independent, liable to exploitation (green crime)

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primary Green crimes

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  1. crime of air pollution: burning of fossil fuels (6b tones of carbon) potential criminals are Gov businesses and consumers.
  2. species decline: 50 species a day are becoming extinct due to deforestation and animal trafficking
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secondary Green crimes

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state violence: states condemn terrorism that resort but resort to similar methods e.g. France blew up a ship that was attempting to stop green crime (testing nuclear weapons in the pacific).

hazardous waste. disposal of toxic waste highly profitable. legal disposable. its expensive so profit from illegal dumping in the sea “radioactive rubbish dump” some dump in third world countries $2500 atone $3 a tone illustrates the problems

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evaluation of green criminology

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recognises the growing importance of global issues and need to address harms
by focusing on harms, hard to define the boundries, matter of values

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the scale of state crime

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state’s enormous power gives it the potential to inflict harm on a huge scale. 262 million murdered by government during 20th century

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the state is the source of law

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states role to define what is criminal but means they can conceal crimes. makes it difficult for united nations to intervene as the state acts as supreme authority

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case studies for state crime

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  1. political crimes e.g. corruption
  2. crimes by security e.g. genocide
  3. economic crimes e.g. violation of health and safety
  4. cultural crimes e.g. racism
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genocide in Rwanda

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united nations defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy in whole, national, ethical, racial or religious group” Rwanda became a religious colony in 1922. Rwanda gained independence in 1962

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chambliss

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“acts define by laws as criminals and committed by state officials in pursuit of their jobs” using a state own law to define state crime is inadequate. ignores that states have the power to make laws for own purpose e.g. Nazi sterilisation of the disabled

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social harms and zemiology

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recognises that harm done by states is not against the law.

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michalowski

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also include “legally permissible acts were consequences are similar to illegal ones”

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hillyard

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replace the study of crimes with “zemiology of harms, regardless of the law (single standards)

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what do critics argue about the harms definition

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critics are too vague- who decides what counts as a harm?

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labelling

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state crime is socially constructed, varies overtime and culture. prevents sociologists imposing their own definition when they may not be how the audience defines it

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criticisms to the labelling theory defining crime

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however, even more vague than "harms" definition.
unclear what to do if different audiences reach different verdicts
ignores that audience may be manipulated by ruling class ideology e.g. wars are legitimates.
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international law

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some sociologists base definitions on international law

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advantage of international law

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doesn’t depend on audience or sociological defintions

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disadvantage of international law

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however, like the state, definitions are social construct using power, may be intentionally designed to deal with state crime e.g. japan gave foreign aid to Jamaican islands to bribe them to vote against whale hunting

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human rights include

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natural rights- people have simply by existing

civil rights- e.g vote education

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Herman

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define state crimes as violation of basic human rights

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advantage of human rights definition

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rights are now global norms and all states care about this image

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disadvantage of human rights definition

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disagreements about what counts as human rights

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how does authoritarian personality define state crime

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willingness to obey orders through discipline socialisation (ww2). little psychologists difference between psychopaths and people carry out genocides

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how does modernity explain state crime

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some argue a breakdown of civilisation results in reversion to barbarism

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Bauman

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disagrees and argues the following made the holocaust happen.

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what key features of modern society made the holocaust possible (Bauman)

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  1. the division of labour: everyone had one task
  2. Bureaucratisation: made it a routine job
  3. instrumental rationality: rational methods to achieve a goal science and technology e.g. gas
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AO3 for division of labour

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not all genocides occur through a division of labour

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how does crimes of obedience explain state crime

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state crimes are crimes of conformity. people willing to obey authority even when it harms others.

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Green and ward

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tortures and re-socialised and trained to see the person as an “enemy”

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study of the My Lai massacre, three features that produce crime and obedience

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  1. authoritarian- acts of approval by those by those in authority
  2. Routinisation- turn act into a routine
  3. dehumanisation- enemy describes as sub-human.
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how does cultural of denial

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democratic states have a legitimates their actions in more complex ways.

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spiral of state denial

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  1. it didn’t happen
  2. “it it did happen it was someone else”
  3. “even if it did happen it was justified”
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Cohen shows how the state use the same techniques to justify human rights violations

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  1. neutralisation- denial of victim
  2. denial of injury
  3. denial of responsibility
  4. condemning the condemners
  5. appeal to higher royalty

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