Globalisation

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  • Created on: 24-04-18 16:04

Key Terms

Transnational Crime

Criminal activities across national boundaries.

Transnational Organised Crime

Transnational crime by an organised group.

Glocal System

A group that operates on global and local scales.

Deregulation

Removing/reducing state regulation.

Subsidies

Benefit given by government to groups/individuals in cash payment or tax reduction.

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How has it affected crime?

Disorganised Capitalism

Globalisation accompanied by less regulation and fewer state controls over finance and business.

Growing Inequality

Winners of globalisation are rich financial investors and transnational corporations in Western worlds, losers are LEDC's.

Supply and Demand

Emigrating to developed countries will lead to better standards of living- market for human traffiking.

More Opportunities for Crime

Money laundering, credit card/identity theft, impossible for police to track.

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Green Crime

Traditional Criminology

Whether international laws and regulations have been broken.

Green Criminology

More radical approach, starts from harm rather than criminal law, anthropocentric approach.

Primary Green Crimes

Crimes resulting from degredation of Earth's resources.

Secondary Green Crime

Crimes growing out of rules aimed at preventing environmental disasters.

Recognises growing importance of environmental issues and need to address it.

Broader concepts rather than legally defined ones, harder to define boundaries.

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Genocide

UN= acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a racial, ethnic, national or religious group.

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Other types of global crime

  • Worldwide drugs trade.
  • Human trraffiking.
  • Cybercrime.
  • Environmental crime.
  • State crime.
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