globalisation and crime

• globalisation


  increased interconnectedness of nations in contemporary society
• features of globalisation


  increased travel and communication

  spread of capitalist ideologies

  global mass media
• global crime


  • trafficking- arms, people, drugs, counterfeit goods
  • organised crime
  • corporate crime
  • green crime
  • cyber crime
  • state crimes
• cybercrime


  • Any criminal action perpetrated primarily through the use of a computer/technology
  • increases in fraud, identity theft
• consumerism


  • idea that increasing the consumption of goods and services purchased in the market is always a desirable goal
  • a person's well-being and happiness depend fundamentally on obtaining consumer goods and material possessions.
• containerisation


  • the transport of goods across the world in container ships, which can be inter-changed between ships, trains and trucks.
  • Drugs, people, weapons and counterfeit goods can easily be trafficked these containers
• Glenny - McMafia


  • organisations that emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe after the fall of communism in the late 1980s.
  • The new Russian government deregulated much of the economy.
  • This created a new elite, called 'oligarchs'.
  • To protect themselves from increasing disorder, oligarchs turned to the new 'mafias' (often comprised of ex-state security/secret servicemen from the old communist regimes).
• trafficking


  • transport of goods and people across borders illegally
  • fall of communism created supra-national states e.g EU- allowing greater freedom of movement
• communism


  A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
• organised crime


  • crime by an organised gang or organisation
  • due to fall of communism this led to reduction in recruitment of covert operatives e.g KGB- joined privatised militias, operating illegally (Mcmafias)
• KGB


  Soviet secret police
• corporate crime


  • the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf
  • deregulation of markets and free trade allowed transnational companies to set up globally
  • moved production to low wage economies led to health and safety concerns maltreatment
• transnational companies


  Companies, businesses which operate on a global scale, in many countries.
• deregulation


  The lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities.