topic 15 - crime in a global context

Question 1

Misha Glenny 2008

Answer 1

Mafia = global
Italian drugs trade

franchised business to other parts of globe - brand of ‘the Mafia’ sold to other countries

“McMafia”

Columbia economy nearly $20 billion revenue cocaine 2023 (will be soon higher than oil)

Question 2

Noam Chomsky

Answer 2

governments guilty of global organised crime (especially USA)

Edward Snowden
Guantanamo Bay

Question 3

Sylvia Walby (global crime)

Answer 3

global human trafficking and modern day slavery

75% of trafficked people are female, mostly sexual slavery

Japan Korea ‘comfort women’

most vulnerable in society often trafficked; triple system feminism

Question 4

South et al

Answer 4

Green crime
PRIMARY green crime: not yet illegal but inflicts harm on environment (air pollution, deforestation, water pollution, species decline)
transgressive criminology needed

EU and UN are slow to deal with major environmental crime

SECONDARY green crime: green crime considered illegal under national/international law

Snider: often goes unpunished as governments lack power over big corporations in capitalist society

Question 5

Beck

Answer 5

Postmoddrnists risk theory

environmental problems have led to ‘democratisation of risk’; green crimes impact EVERYONE regardless of hierarchy