Globalisation and crime

Question 1

What are five examples of global crimes?

Answer 1

1. Financial crimes
2. Arms Trafficking
3. Human Trafficking
4. Drug Trade
5. Green crime

Question 2

What is global risk consciousness? And how has it affected

Answer 2

Global risk consciousness is when the risk to safety is seen as global rather than tied to a specific place.

This has occurred due to the increase in globalisation, specifically rising in western countries through the increase in movements of economic migrants and asylum seekers perpetuated by the media.

Question 3

What does Taylor state about globalisation, capitalism and crime?

Answer 3

Stated that globalisation has changed the pattern and extent of crime, coming from free reign given to market forces.

Transnational corporations can now switch to low wage countries producing unemployment and poverty. The economy has become deregulated so economy’s have little control over corporations. So they are able to utilise this to increase the deregulation of global markets by moving their money around the globe.

Question 4

What do Hobbs and Dunningham state about criminal organisations?

Answer 4

Globalisation and de-industrialisation have created new criminal opportunities and patterns at a local level.

They found that the way crime is organised links to economic changes brought about due to globalisation.

‘glocal’ organisations - These organisations have international ties but still with local contacts to find opportunities to sell them. E.g. Drugs.

Not as larger scale as ‘mafia’ style criminal organisations.

Question 5

What is the McMafia? and what does Glenny state about this?

Answer 5

McMafia is organisations emerged in Russia/ Eastern Europe following the fall of communism.

Glenny states that the origins of transitional crime can be linked to this time and breakup of the soviet union.