globalisation

Question 1

How has globalisation affected crime patterns?

Answer 1

Globalisation has led to new opportunities for crime, including cybercrime, trafficking, and green crime, due to increased interconnectedness.

Question 2

Castells does cocaine in columbia

What is transnational organised crime?

Answer 2

Criminal networks now operate globally,

Large criminal networks traffic cocaine from countries like Colombia through West Africa into Europe.

e,g drug smuggling, trafficking

Difficult to measure or police due to hidden, borderless nature of these crimes.

Question 3

What is green crime?

Answer 3

**Crime against the environment (e.g. pollution, illegal logging). Beck links it to the ‘global risk society’ caused by human-made threats.

Often ignored by governments due to corporate links and profit motives.

Question 4

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How does Castells describe global crime?

Answer 4

He calls it a ‘global criminal economy’ worth over £1 trillion annually, involving drugs, arms, trafficking, etc.

Good for scale, but lacks focus on how different classes or countries are affected differently.

Answer 5

Explains motive, but neglects free will or personal choice in committing crime.

Question 6

How does globalisation affect state crime?

Answer 6

made state crimes more visible via media, but also** harder to prosecute** due to international power dynamics.

torture, war crimes, genocide

Useful for understanding political crime, but hard to prove responsibility.

Question 7

What is cybercrime and how is it linked to globalisation?

Answer 7

Crimes that occur technologically.

Hacking, Scamming ect

Bitcoin Scam

Rapidly evolving — hard for law to keep up or track effectively. Hard to track - annonymous

Question 8

Give 2 examples of state crime

Answer 8

• Rwandan Genocide (1994)
  The Rwandan government and Hutu militias orchestrated the systematic massacre of around 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu in just 100 days, an extreme example of **state-led ethnic cleansing **and mass murder.
• Vietnam War, 1968
  U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai. This war crime** was initially covered up by military authorities** but later exposed, showing how states can commit and conceal atrocities.

Question 9

Give 2 Examples of Green Crime

Answer 9

• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
  An explosion on the BP-operated releasing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and devastating marine ecosystems.
• Amazon Rainforest Deforestation
  Illegal logging and land clearing in the Amazon rainforest, often linked to agribusiness and mining interests, have led to massive loss of biodiversity and contributed to climate change.

Question 10

what happened in the Bitconnect scam

Answer 10

Bitcoin owneres were scammed into loaning their bitcoin into a pot, that would apparently double, It turned out to be ponzi scheme, lrading to many at loss