globalisation and crime

• globalisation is how interconnected the world is - easy to trade, travel and communicate with global countries we now have a 'global culture'
• new opportunities to commit crimes internationally and new crimes due to globalisation due to 3 factors

  travel

  technology

  deregulation
• TECHNOLOGY + TRAVEL - illegal drug trade

  Drug smugglers operate in global criminal networks and instant communication technology made it possible to set up to deal with people from other countries. Hobbs and dunninghan - global crime eg. sex trafficking. Profitable due to supply and demand. TM argue supply and demands based on exploitation and inequality of producing illegal drugs due to material deprivation
• TECHNOLOGY + TRAVEL - illegal drug tradeAO3


  strict penalties for getting caught with trafficking drugs - acts as a deterrent (boundary maintenance)

  sentences harsher in countries like colombia, thailand HOWEVER it will never stop due to the criminogenic need in the world for money
• TECHNOLOGY - cybercrime

  internet led to rise of cybercrime eg. identity theft of twitter hack 2020 3 men hacked celeb accounts to tweet a bitcoin scam, made of £80K in a spear phishing attack pretending to be employees to steal personal information. Low prosecution rates as its dark figure
• TECHNOLOGY - cybercrime AO3

  cybercrime is increasing becoming difficult to detect so as a result countries are trying to help detect, prevent and shut down opportunities with harsh consequences
• TRAVEL - human trafficking

  buy and sell people for exploitation - facilitated by fast international travel and low cost airlines so countries are linked making it easy to move people between countries. EG.trafficking of young women in EU countries to work as domestic and sex slaves. MF argue its a product of capitalism and patriachy - greed, self interest, exert power and dominance over women
• TRAVEL - human trafficking AO3

  hidden crime so we do not really know how much occurs but what we do know is most members of society disagree upon it so it is less likely to engage in it unlike drug trafficking
• DEREGULATION - financial global crimes

  opportunities of financial crimes eg. money laundering. run like businesses done on computer in offices so hard to detect. new opportunities from deregulation of the financial market so easy to facilitate in secrecy. PM argue these crimes link to individualism - commit for personal benefit with global consumer ideology
• DEREGULATION - financial global crimes AO3

  technology is being developed daily to help detect money laundering and any suspicious companies are also being detected
• DEREGULATION - corporate crimes in developing countries

  corporate crimes in developing countries by capitalist western where productions low eg. shein cheap clothes, indonesia factories dump toxic chemicals in water to avoid fees led to health problems. Marxists argue criminogenic capitalism drives corporate - need to maintain profit due to corruption of government
• DEREGULATION - corporate crimes in developing countries AO3

  lots of companies are trying to stop outsource UK products and call centres overseas due to customer complaints eg. call centres

  using labour in other countries (if done correctly and humanely) can provide training and opportunities for those in less developed countries than ours - provided with skills