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.
        • 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
      • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Karofi and Mwanza: Suggest global crime includes international trade in illegal drugs weapons and human beings, money laundering, terrorism and cyber crime

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