Globalisation and crime

• Held et al


  Globalisation of crime - the increase of interconecctedness of society and crime across national borders

  
  

  New crimes are being committed alongside increased volumes of crime such as trafficking
• Castells (1998)


  There is now a global criminal economy:

  • Arms trafficking
  • Sex tourism
  • Trafficking of body parts
  • Green crime
  • Trafficking of women and children
  • Cyber crimes
  • Money laundering
• Taylor (1997)


  Globalisation has led to changes in the pattern and extent of crime. Brings deindustrialisation and insecurity.
• Glocal


  Global and local - Crimes that are locally based but with global connections (Hobbs)
• Green crime


  Crimes against the environment
• Beck (1992)


  Technology has created new 'manufactured risks' - dangers we have never faced before
• South

  Identified two types of green crime:

  Primary - result directly from the destrucrtion and degredation of the Earth's resources

  Secondary - Flouting the rules aimed at protecting environmental disasters
• Green criminology


  Adopts an ecocentric view and starts from the notion of harm rather than the law
• Marxist


  Crimes of the powerful are able to shape/define crime so their own exploitive activities are not criminalised
• Traditional criminology


  Not concerned with green crime as no laws have been broken