Globalisation and Crime
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- Created on: 07-06-13 11:25
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- Crime and Globalisation
- The Global Criminal Economy
- Held et al- there had been a globalisation of crime
- Interconnectedness of crime accross national borders and a spread of transnational organised crime
- Castells- worth over £1 trillion per year and takes many froms
- Arms trafficking, smuggling illegal immigrants, people trafficking, sex tourism, cybercrime, the drug trade and Terrorism
- Held et al- there had been a globalisation of crime
- Global Risk Consciousness
- Globalisation creates new insecurities or 'risk consciousness' in a global form
- E.g west fear migrants
- The result is the intensification of social control at national level e.g. UK tightening border controls
- Globalisation creates new insecurities or 'risk consciousness' in a global form
- Globalisation, Capitalism and Crime
- Taylor- Globalisation had led to greater inequality
- TNC have moved manufacturing creating job insecurity, unemployment and poverty
- People turn to crime e.g. in drugs
- Globalisation has promoted a lifestyle of consumption
- People turn to crime e.g. in drugs
- TNC have moved manufacturing creating job insecurity, unemployment and poverty
- Taylor- Globalisation had led to greater inequality
- Patterns of Criminal Organisation
- Hobbs and Dunninham: 'Glocal organisation'
- Although crime networks have global connections (drug trade) they are still locally based (who they sell dugs to)
- A shift away from hierarchical 'Mafia style' organisations of the past lo loose networks
- Although crime networks have global connections (drug trade) they are still locally based (who they sell dugs to)
- Glenny: McMaffia
- After the fall of communism in EE, commodity prices were kept at old soviet prices
- New elite brought them and sold for extraordinary profit
- Turned to New 'Mafia's' for protection- these criminal organisations were vital for Russia's new communist class into the entry of the world economy
- New elite brought them and sold for extraordinary profit
- After the fall of communism in EE, commodity prices were kept at old soviet prices
- Hobbs and Dunninham: 'Glocal organisation'
- The increased interconnectedness of societies
- The Global Criminal Economy
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