Topic 9 Globalisation Flashcards
(45 cards)
What does Beck argue about globalisation causing crime?
- globalisation has created new insecurities of risk consciousness
- the media presented ethnic minorities in a negative way which has led to rise in hate crimes
What does Marxists say about globalisation causing crime?
- Taylor argues that globalisation has allows for transnational corporate crime
- companies are now moving abroad, leading to unemployment and poverty in the UK
What do Mitsos and Browne (Marxist) argue about globalisation causing crime?
- traditional jobs declining have lead to ‘identity crisis for young boys’
According to Marxists, what has globalisation allowed companies to do?
- allowed transnational companies to switch manufacturing to low-wage counties, producing job insecurity, unemployment and poverty
How can Taylors theory of globalisation and crime be evaluated?
- it does not adequately explain how the changes make people behave in criminal ways, for example, all poor people turn to crime and not all powerful companies use these opportunities to commit crime
What does Taylor (Marxist) argue about globalisation causing crime?
- Taylor argues that globalisation has allows for transnational corporate crime
- globalisation has create greater inequality and rising crime
How can the movement of transnational companies from the UK to developing countries cause crime in both?
- when companies move overseas, they commit white collar crime by neglecting health and safety and giving low wages
- In the UK, there’s a loss of jobs as factories move abroad, increasing inequalities like poverty and unemployment, which lead to people committing crime
How can the Marxist theory of globalisation be evaluated?
It does not adequately how the changes make people behave in criminal ways.
For example, all poor people turn to crime and not all powerful companies use these opportunities to commit crime.
Give 3 examples of global crimes?
- human trafficking
- green crime
- cyber crime
What does Hobbs argue about global organisations?
- gangs are doing what is needed on a local level
- organisations are locally based with global connections
- glocal corporations
who argues that state crime is a violation of human rights?
schwendinger
who argues that if green crime causes harm is a crime/ green criminologist?
White
who identifies the two types of green crime, primary and secondary crime?
South
who argues that those in developing areas are at greater risk of green crime?
White
who argues that poorer groups are worse affected by pollution?
South
who argues state crime cannot happen without authoritarian personality
adorno
who discusses that states use techniques of neutralisation to justify state crime?
matza
What does Glenny argue about globalisation and crime?
- the relationship between criminal organisation and globalisation is called McMafia
- this refers to the organisations that have emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe
How is green crime caused?
- through our actions, we are causing our own destruction
- through atmospheric pollution
what is the traditional criminologist view of environmental crime?
- if you’ve not broken a law, its fine
- ‘an unauthorised act that violates the law’
- interested in the illegal dumping of toxic waste
what is the green criminologist view of environmental crime?
- they believe it starts from the notion of harm
- White argues it is any action that has caused harm to the environment
- ecocentric view
South identifies 4 types of primary crime, what are they?
- air pollution
- deforestation
- species decline
- water pollution
Give 3 specific examples of green crime?
- volkswagen 2015
- BP deepwater horizon 2010
- Union Carbide disaster Bhopal 1984
What is secondary green crime?
- crime which grows out of rules being broken aimed at preventing environmental disasters
- for example, state violence against oppositional groups and hazardous waste and organised crime
