Globalisation

Question 1

What does Held say about Globalisation?

Answer 1

globalisation of crime is the growing interconnectedness of crime across national borders,sometimes referred to as Transnational organised crime

Question 2

What are the Causes of globalisation?

Answer 2

•New communication and technology
•Mass media
•Cheaper and easier flights for business

Question 3

Example of Global crime economic?

Answer 3

Third world countries ‘supply’ the drugs e.g. which reaches the ‘demand’ of the western countries e.g. Colombian drug supply this is because 20% of the Colombian population rely on cocaine production for their livelihood

Question 4

What is Detterritorlisation?

Answer 4

The decline of the power of state-Countries are now too connected,Nations are no longer part of ‘territory’

Question 5

Castells says new types of crimes have emerged from globalisation such as?

Answer 5

-Arm trafficking
-Smuggling illegal immigrants
-international terrorism
-Financial crimes
-Drug trade (Drug market value £335 billion)
-Green crime
-Cyber crime e.g child Pornography,Hacking
-Trafficking of women and children

Question 6

Type of Human Trafficking?

Answer 6

1)Forced labour
2)Sex
3)Force marriage
4)Domestic servitude -forced labour that occurs in a private household
5)Child solider

Question 7

What is Modern Laundering?

Answer 7

Making money obtained legally look like it came from a legal source
-Castells-calls this the ‘matrix of global crime’ as people (drug dealers etc) are able to cover their tracks easy