Crime - globalisation

Question 1

Inequality

Answer 1

globalisation has lead to mass poverty and unemployment in the USA and UK, marxists and leftists argue this is a main cause of crime as they feel relative deprivation

Question 2

Reiner on consumerism

Answer 2

the inability to achieve status and goals marked by capitalism leads to rising crime rates. Capitsalis is criminogenic as it produces crime locally and globally

Question 3

globalisation creating new opportunities

Answer 3

cyber crime, human and drug trafficking, money laundering. For example, drug trade in the Uk depends on the ability of global cartels to move drugs effectively.

Question 4

Crimes of the powerful

Answer 4

Moving production to low income countries with weaker labour and environmental laws while having workers in illegal conditions being underpaid

Question 5

transactional policing and intelligence sharing

Answer 5

Interpol and europol share infomation across borders improving tracking and coordination. survaliance and biometrics make it easier to find offenders

Question 6

Haggerty and Ericson (data doubles)

Answer 6

technologies combine such as CCTV and credit card tracking to create data doubles which help monitor and track criminals

Question 7

Beck (risk society)

Answer 7

crime prevention focuses on predicting and preventing a crime before it even happens. Airports use profiling to spot potential offenders.

Question 8

International agreements

Answer 8

stronger checks at borders and container scanning

Question 9

evaluation of globalisation and crime (strengths)

Answer 9

shows how international processes such as trade and migration influence crime at a local level. Showing globalisation does’t replace local trade but interacts with it in complex ways.

Question 10

evaluation of globalisation and crime (weaknesses)

Answer 10

global crimes like fraud and trafficking are difficult to research because they require specialist knowledge. This means reliable statistics are often unavailable which raises questions bout the validity of research findings.

Question 11

Glenny - mcmafia

Answer 11

global organised crime networks operate like legitimate global businesses

Question 12

Examples of transnational crimes

Answer 12

zones of production, distribution and consumption helped by containerisation and the darknet

Question 13

Zones of production, distribution and consumption

Answer 13

Production: coke in latin america
distribution: mexican cartels control drug cocaine routes into the USA
Consumption: major markets into UK and USA

Question 14

evaluations of international agreements

Answer 14

Many countries are used to trade drugs into and out of as they have weaker border control

Question 15

state crime impacts

Answer 15

the government are responsible for 262 million deaths in the 20th century through imprisonment, torture, genocide and war crimes. such as the holocaust.

Question 16

the state being the source of law

Answer 16

conceal there own crimes, evade punishment by refusing to prosecute, avoid criminalisation by not defining there acts as harmful/law breaking in the first place

Question 17

Mclaughlin - 4 types of state crime

Answer 17

Political, economic, crimes committed by state forces, social and cultural crimes