Globalisation and crime
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- Globalisation and crime
- Two important features of global crime
- Rise of transnational corporations
- Ability of Transnational corporations to move production to cheap labour areas has produced widespread exploitation
- Many countries included the use of forced and child labour
- In western countries such as UK it has contributed towards deindustrialisation
- Many manufacturing jobs have disappeared
- As a result crime has increased as people illegitimately seek ways of reaching the success goals of society
- Merton's strain theory explains that people strain (commit crime) in order to achieve cultural goals without the legitimate means.
- As a result crime has increased as people illegitimately seek ways of reaching the success goals of society
- Many manufacturing jobs have disappeared
- Companies that operate across national boarders
- Produced a number of consequences which are felt throughout the world
- Deregulation of financial and other markets
- Globalisation has increased opportunities for financial fraud in a mass scale
- Millions of pounds can be moved across the world in seconds
- Globalisation has increased opportunities for financial fraud in a mass scale
- Deregulation of financial and other markets
- Ability of Transnational corporations to move production to cheap labour areas has produced widespread exploitation
- Deregulation of financial and other markets
- Globalisation has increased opportunities for financial fraud in a mass scale
- Millions of pounds can be moved across the world in seconds
- Globalisation has increased opportunities for financial fraud in a mass scale
- Rise of transnational corporations
- Taylor links global crime to the way capitalist systems have developed
- Taylor argues the growth of the drugs trade linked to globalisation has had an impact on both supply and demand of illegal substances.
- Supply: Money raised form the sale of drugs can be hidden behind legitimate companies
- Allowing funds to be 'laundered'
- Demand: Many areas of the UK and USA have become so deprived that the drug trade offers them an escape from reality and also a business oppotunities
- Supply: Money raised form the sale of drugs can be hidden behind legitimate companies
- Illegal drug trade
- Adult commission 2012 said half of all recorded crime in England and Wales was drug related
- Drug addiction is responsible for a high amount of property crime
- The global drug market is estimated at $321 billion
- International drug trade provides people the drugs that are available in local communities in the UK
- Human trafficking
- Illegal movement and smuggling of people for many different purposes
- Prostitution, forced labour, Illegal removal of organs for transplants, modern slavery
- Also related to the global criminal network dealing with trade in illegal immigrants
- Smuggling into countries at high costs, people who are unable to enter legally
- Illegal movement and smuggling of people for many different purposes
- Money laundering
- Making money that has been obtained illegally look as if it came from legal sources
- Uses modern communications technology to launder 'dirty money' by moving it around the world electronically through complex financial transactions
- Makes it difficult for law enforcement agencies to track down sources of money
- Cyber crime
- Wide range of criminal acts committed with the help of communication and information technology
- predominantly the internet
- Global because many online frauds, illegal ***********, hacking identity theft offences have their offenders outside the county
- Internet based fraud, child ***********, paedophilia, terrorist websites, outside the country network hacking, phishing, identity theft
- Wide range of criminal acts committed with the help of communication and information technology
- Karofi and Mwanza: Suggest global crime includes international trade in illegal drugs weapons and human beings, money laundering, terrorism and cyber crime
- Two important features of global crime
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