Sociology Crime: Green Crime & Globalisation

Question 1

Sociology:crime & globalisation
The global criminal economy

Answer 1

held et al
-increasing connectives of crime across boarders
-e.g
Differnt forms of smuggling
-supply and demand for products from rich west

Question 2

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Global risk consciousness

Answer 2

-this is when risk is seen as global rather then a certain area
-e.g immigration has risks
-spread by politicians and media
-Uk increasing boarders

Question 3

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Globalisation, capitalism & crime

Answer 3

Taylor
-globalisation has lead to changes in patterns and extent of crime
-through giving power to free market forces
-mncs exploiting contries
-media exploiting low income earners by flexing materialistic goods

Question 4

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Patterns of organised crime

Answer 4

Dunningham
-crime is linked to Econmic changes brought by globalisation

Question 5

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Glocal

Answer 5

Dunningham
-locally produced drugs but due to globalisation networks now sell drugs abroad

Question 6

Sociology:crime & globalisation
McMafia

Answer 6

Glenry
-organisations that emerged in Russia & Eastern Europe after communism
-commodities remained at soviet prices which were sold on at a huge profit in the world market
-mafias in Russia formed due to econmic gain rather then family

Question 7

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Green criminology

Answer 7

-States the notion of harm rather then criminal law
-many environmental harms are not legal so green criminology is wider

Question 8

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Traditional criminology

Answer 8

Sita-“an unauthorised act that violates the law”
-it’s not defined by criminal law
-no law has been broken

Question 9

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Primary green crime

Answer 9

-result of destruction of the earths natural resources
-eg
Deforestation
Air pollution
Species decline & dog fights

Question 10

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Secondary green crime

Answer 10

-breaking laws that where there to protect the environment
-e.g French blowing up green peace boat in new Zealand

Question 11

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Bhopal disaster

Answer 11

-pesticide plant in India (US owned)
-six safety alarms failed
-20,000 died and 120,000 feel effects like cancer,birth defects and others
-US chose countries it could expose

Question 12

Sociology:crime & globalisation
Critique of green criminology

Answer 12

-hard to find boundary’s due to such a broad concept
-cannot be established objectively

Question 13

Sociology:defining state crime
Zemiology

Answer 13

-harm done isn’t against law
zemilogy- the study of harms weather it should or shouldn’t be against law
-however harm is too vague

Question 14

Sociology:defining crime
Labelling & societal reaction

Answer 14

-depends on what social audiences classes as a crime
-prevents sociologist imposing own definitions
-audience could have been manipulated by ruling class ideology

Question 15

Sociology:defining crime
International law

Answer 15

-base state crime on international law
-takes out sociologist opinions
-international law is there to deal with state crime
-international law is a social construct

Question 16

Sociology: explaining state crime
Authoritarian personality

Answer 16

-willingness to obey without question
-e.g WW2 Natzis
-peoples said they must have been psychopaths but a study suggests they were normal

Question 17

Sociology: explaining state crime
Crimes of obedience

Answer 17

-crime is deviance from social norms
-but if a corrupt police unit take bribes it’s not against the norm
Green- tortures needed to be re-socialised
-authority tends to be obeyed over moral principles

Question 18

Sociology: explaining state crime
Modernity

Answer 18

WW2
-division of Labour
-the soldiers weren’t responsible as they were only doing a small task
-normalised killing making it routine(Burenauatisation)
-factory system for killing

Question 19

Sociology: explaining state crime
Culture of Denial

Answer 19

-growing impact of human rights
-dictators just denied breaking it
-democracy’s have a “spiral of state denial”
-which is made up of justifying behaviour but not denying it happend