Global Crime
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 04-04-15 10:04
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- Global Crime
- "The Widening, deepening and speeding up of world wide interconnectedness in all aspects of life from the cultural to the criminal, financial to the spiritual" - Held et al
- The global criminal economy
- Supply and demand
- Part of the reason for transnational crime is the economy of sply
- The rich demand west demands drugs, prositituion from the developing countries (similar to an illegal version of core and periphery)
- In Colombia 20% of the population is dependant on the cocaine trade
- Taylor
- Globalisation, by giving free rein to capitalism has led to greater inequality and thus has meant an increase in crime
- Individualism created by marketisation has led to people making decisions based on personal gain rather than community benefits or social cohesion
- Large scale crime has been helped by technology meaning elites can cipher large amounts of money through banker fraud
- Glenny: McMafia
- Refers to the organisations which emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union
- After the fall of Communism, the Russian gov. they deregulated prices except for natural resources which stayed at the old price - a fortieth of the world market price
- This meant that groups could sell oil on the global market with a massive profit - leading to organised crime in this industry
- Supply and demand
- Green Crime
- Traditional crime is clean-cut, green crime is more difficult to find those responsible as it is usually a laerge TNC committing the crime
- Industrailisation has increased the green crime
- South et al, identitifys two types of green crime, primary and secondary
- Primary - resulting directly from the destruction of the earth, this includes pollution, deforestation and water pollution
- Secondary - breaking or neglecting rules/laws that prevent disasters like waste dumping
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP increased cancer and respiratory dieases in the area, affected 10,000 species of animal
- 2010
- Chinas neglagence of pollution rules, 500,000 die a year directly from air pollution in China
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP increased cancer and respiratory dieases in the area, affected 10,000 species of animal
- Crime contributes 15% of the worlds GDP
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