Globalisation, green crime and state crime:

Question 1

Globalisation, green crime and state crime:

Answer 1

• Globalisation has allowed transnational organised crimes to flourish (e.g. trafficking arms, drugs, and people)
• We now live in global risk society where human made threats include large environmental damage
• Green criminology adopts an ecocentric view based on harm rather than the law and identified both primary and secondary green crimes
• The state also contributes to green crime through the exploitation of health and safety laws.

Question 2

• Castells

Answer 2

• As a result of globalisation there is a global criminal economy worth over 1 trillion per annum

Question 3

• Taylor

Answer 3

• Globalisation has created crimes at both ends of the spectrum
• It has allowed transnational cooperations to swich manufacturing to low-wage countries
• Producing job insecurity, unemployment and poverty
• Globalisation has also created inequality leading to an increase in crime

Question 4

• Glenny

Answer 4

• McMafia – the organisations that emerged in Russia following the fall of communism.
• Glenny traces the origins of transnational organised crime to the breakup of the Soviet Union, which coincided with deregulation of global markets

Question 5

Green crime theorists

Answer 5

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