Globalisation and crime studies

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Which sociologist argues that globalisation has led to new opportunities for new types of crime?
Castells argues that globalisation has led to a global criminal economy, in which new opportunities for crime and new types of crime have emerged. Global crime often depends on the power relationship between the ‘rich west’ and ‘poor rest’.
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Which sociologist argues that globalisation has led to changes in patterns of criminal organisations?
Castells argues that globalisation has created transnational networks of organised crime, which operate in many countries.
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Which sociologists proposed 'glocalism', and what does this mean?
Hobbs and Dunnighan propose 'glocalism', meaning that local crime networks are connected globally, are less planned, less organised, more transient, more flexible and more opportunistic.
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Which sociologists proposed 'McMafias', and what does this mean?
Glenny described McMafias, the way transnational organised crime mirrors the activities of legal transnational corporations like McDonald’s, which are self-interested economic organisations which seek to provide for hire or sell the same products across t
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Which Marxist sociologist discussed the effect of globalisation on crime?
Taylor discussed the effects of deregulation, growing inequality and supply and demand on global crime.
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Which sociologist argues that globalisation has led to the spread of the ideology of consumerism?
Young argues that globalisation through travel, migration and media has spread the ideology of consumerism, which leads to crime.
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How does the ideology of consumerism cause crime?
Young argues that the ideology of consumerism increases feelings of relative deprivation and leads to people turning to crime in order to attain the consumerist lifestyle, for example, through the international drug trade.
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Which sociologist argues that the global risk society leads to crime, and what is this?
Beck argues that globalisation increases feelings of insecurity, producing a global risk economy, where people are more risk-conscious. The media plays on the fear of risks, which can fuel hate crimes.
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Which sociologist proposed green criminology and what is this?
White argues in favour of green criminology, meaning that green crime should be defined using the concept of environmental harm rather than criminal law, as in traditional criminology.
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Which sociologist makes a distinction between primary and secondary green crimes?
South makes a distinction between primary and secondary green crimes.
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Which sociologists define state crime, and how?
Schwendinger and Schwendinger take a transgressive approach to defining state crime, emphasising the violation of human rights, whether this is a part of a country’s criminal law or not.
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Which sociologist emphasises the difficulties of studying state crime?
Cohen argues that it is difficult to find out the true extent of state crime because governments use techniques of neutralisation, and control information to cover up crimes. State secrecy means there is often no official statistics.
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