crime globalisation

• decreased crime

  Greater international cooperation between police forces and the more widespread use of extradition agreements has meant its easier to track and prosecute offenders. Pre-globalisation, individuals were able to flee states to avoid prosecution, this can no longer be effectively achieved with the creation of organisations such as europol.
• decreased crime

  Newburn points out that since the events of 9/11 the sharing of information between US and european governments has increased, which is essential to tackling international organised crime.

  However, this increase in security could be argued to have lead criminals into become more creative, as most research indicates that globalisation has lead to new ways of organising crime
• castello: argues that globalisation involves the development of international networks, which lets knowledge, goods, and people move across national boundaries quickly, easily and cheaply. This has lead to the existence of criminal networks, such as the russian mafia and colombian drug cartel. These criminal activities tend to be centered upon countries where the state and law enforcement is weak. EG afghanistan is the centre for Heroin production, and then are sold in richer, more profitable countries such as the USA and the UK.
• criticism of castello: Although many criminal networks are global in their scope, they are often organised along regional or ethnic lines. For example, there are strong links between chinese triads and chinese minority ethnic groups world wide - which poses the question of how much globalisaiton has impacted the spread of illegal drugs amongst individuals.
• Marxists: the development capitalism has lead to an increase of global crime. Ian Taylor: The privatisation and marketisation are features of capitalist development that help drive globalisation. In turn this creates the conditions for transnational and local crime by elites. EG as elites are able to move their finance around the world with little control crimes such as tax evasion and insider trading are able to take place. It is estimated to cost the EU around £7 billion a year.
• ian taylor: Additionally, these factors create insecurity and widening inequalities that encourage people, especially the poor, to turn to crime. The lack of legitimate job opportunities drives the unemployed to look for illegitimate ones, such as drugs trade. For example, de- industrialisation in Los Angeles has led to the growth of gangs numbering by 10,000 members.

  +useful in linking global trends in the capitalist economy to changes in the patterns of crime

  • Over predicts the amount poor people that turn to crime.
• Globalisation has also lead to the increase of local crime. Hobbs & Dunningham coin 'glocal' organisations. These new forms of organisations have international links, but crime is still rooted in its local context. D&H point to Dave Peters, who earned so much money from crime he lived on an island, from where he was able to ship his goods to England. Due to his strong contacts with his home town he was able distribute his stolen goods. Therefore while the crime is locally based, Its able to take place due to its global connections. However, there is no evidence that these patterns are new.