Globalisation & Crime

Question 1

List some causes of global crime

Answer 1

Technology 
Air travel
Sex
Drugs
Supply and demand

Question 2

What does Taylor say?

Answer 2

Globalised capitalist economy has caused more inequality between w/c and m/c crimes

Welfare cuts cause w/c to turn to crime

Question 3

Who says glocal crime?

Answer 3

Hobbs and Dunningham

Question 4

Hobbs and Dunningham

Answer 4

Glocal crime - globalisation and deindustrialisation cause new crime opportunities

Glocal organisation - although global take place in local areas

Question 5

Why is global crime hard to police?

Answer 5

• countrys laws differ

- cooperation between countries is limited

Question 6

What does Beck say about global crime?

Answer 6

It has caused a risk society, causing new sets of insecurities

Question 7

Castells?

Answer 7

Argues the global crime economy is worth £1 trillion and includes crimes like human trafficking

Question 8

Counter for castells

Answer 8

Research is difficuilt so we can never know the extent of global crime or if it is true what he says

Question 9

Rothe?

Answer 9

Restructuring of Rwandan economy led to mass unemployment and was a key factor in the genocide

Links to marxism

Question 10

Glenny

Answer 10

Mcmafia