Globalisation and Crime

Question 1

The global criminal economy

Answer 1

Castells says that there is a global criminal economy worth over £1 trillion per year, taking on forms such as arms trafficking, smuggling of illegal immigrants, trafficking in women and children

Question 2

The global criminal economy evaluation

Answer 2

Surveillance: Foucalt

Question 3

Global risk conciseness

Answer 3

The increased movement of people, such has immigrants. The media have created moral panics based on terrorism, increase in hate crime, so increase in social control

Question 4

Global risk conciseness evaluation

Answer 4

Some nations don’t allow other countries to emigrate or intervene, for instance, North Korea

Question 5

Globalisation, capitalism and crime

Answer 5

Taylor says crime has created greater inequality. Transnational corporations using cheap labour, avoidance of paying taxes, encouraging the poor to turn to crime due to the lack of legitimate job opportunities

Question 6

Globalisation, capitalism and crime evaluation

Answer 6

Too deterministic

Question 7

Patterns of criminal organisation

Answer 7

Hobbs and Dunningham say that globalisation has changed the way crime is organised. Instead of the usual organised crime, mafia style gangs, anyone can commit crime individually

Question 8

Patterns of criminal organisations evaluation

Answer 8

This may not be generalisable to other criminal activity