Globalisation and Crime

Question 1

What new types of crime has globalization introduced?

Answer 1

1. Drugs trade
2. Human trafficking
3. Financial crimes
4. Cyber crime
5. Transnational organised crime
6. Terrorism

Question 2

How has globalization caused drugs trade?

Answer 2

Crops in eastern countries eventually end up as illegal drugs in western countries.

Question 3

How has globalization caused human trafficking?

Answer 3

13000 people in the UK were victims of slavery in 2014.

Question 4

How has globalization caused financial crimes?

Answer 4

E.g money laundering (making illegal money look like it has come from legal sources)

Question 5

How has globalization caused cyber crime?

Answer 5

Increased amount of child pornography available, terrorist websites and identity theft.

Question 6

How has globalization caused transnational organised crime?

Answer 6

Crimes are now being committed across national borders (e.g Colombian drug cartels)

Question 7

How has globalization caused terrorism?

Answer 7

Helped to recruit people from other countries and their presence more feared (e.g posting videos of people being beheaded)

Question 8

What are the impacts of globalization on crime?

Answer 8

1. Individualism.
2. Opportunites.
3. Disorganised capitalism.
4. Risk society.
5. Problems with policing.
6. More inequality.

Question 9

How has globalization impacted individualism?

Answer 9

Those in late modernity have to find their own solutions to globally produced problems, such as living conditions.

Question 10

How has globalization impacted opportunities?

Answer 10

Opens up opportunities for new types of crime and ways to commit (e.g the dark web)

Question 11

How has globalization impacted disorganized capitalism?

Answer 11

Lash and Urry: companies now move production to areas with lower labour costs and less health and safety regulations.

Question 12

How has globalization impacted risk society?

Answer 12

Adds to the insecurity and uncertainty of life in late modernity.

Question 13

How has globalization impacted problems with policing?

Answer 13

As crime spreads past borders, it is not always clear who’s jurisdiction it falls into.

Question 14

How has globalization impacted more inequality?

Answer 14

Those working in developed and developing countries are open to even more uncertainty and relative deprivation.

Question 15

What are the positives of the globalization theory?

Answer 15

1. • Easily applied to contemporary society.

Question 16

What are the negatives of the globalization theory?

Answer 16

1. • Dangerous topic to study.
2. • Most likely has more than a 70% hidden figure of crime.
3. • Removes focus from local crime.
4. • Slavery is not a new crime