Transcript Globalisation, State crime, Human rights & Green crime

Answer these questions
 What is globalisation?
 What new crimes have emerged as a result of
globalisation?
Lesson Objectives
 Understand the ways in which globalisation and crime
are related and be able to evaluate explanations of this
relationship
 Understand the different types of green crime and be
able to evaluate sociological explanations of
environmental harm
 Understand the relationship between state crime &
human rights and be able to evaluate explanations of
such crimes
What is Globalisation?
 The shrinking of the world in a social, cultural and
economic sense.
 McGrew (1992) defines globalisation as “ a process
where the events, decisions and activities of people in
one part of the world has a significant impact upon
people in a totally different part of the world”.
 Consider:
 More efficient travel
 The internet
 Email
Globalisation & Crime
 Ian Taylor (1997) claims that big corporations are now
able to go from country to country looking for the
cheapest labour and the most profitability. This
results in increased unemployment (having a
significant impact upon working class males).
 He claims that an ‘underclass’ culture has developed in
the USA and UK – underclass criminality is caused by
material deprivation and job insecurity
 Increase in people working illegally, immigrants,
Drug trafficking
 First criminals to profit from globalisation
 Columbians and Afghan’s traffic drugs via well
established routes
 The more travellers there are the less conspicuous the
traffickers are
 Estimated to cause 52,000 deaths per year in the USA
People Trafficking
 Existed before globalisation but has become easier in
recent years
Adults
• Prostitution
• Forced labour
• Organs
Children
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All of the above PLUS
Arranged marriages
Illegal adoption
Soldiers
Cyber crime
 Financial scams
 Computer hacking
 Virus attacks
 Websites to promote racial and religious hatred
 Stalking by email
 Identity theft
It is estimated that a cybercrime is committed every 10
seconds in the UK
Environmental crime
Individuals
• Illegal
dumping of
waste
• Picking
protected wild
flowers
• Dealing in
endangered
animals
Businesses
• Dumping
illegal waste
• pollution
Governments
• Pollution
• Transportation
and dumping
of waste
Examples of green crime committed by
government
Internet research
Investigate the Chernobyl disaster
State crimes: War crimes
Examples:
 Attacks on civilians
 Taking hostages
 Using civilians as shields
 Using child soldiers
Investigate ‘Nuremberg
2. Slobodan Milosevic
3. Saddam Hussein
4. Hiroshima
5. Nagasaki
1.
Should George. W.
Bush & Tony Blair be
tried for War Crimes
over the Iraq war?
Some say Yes!!!
Genocide
 The term ‘genocide’ refers to violent crimes committed
against national, ethnic, racial or religious groups
 Examples
Nazi policy of murdering Jews
2. Genocide in Rwanda
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YOU MUST:
Be able to define and discuss these types of crime.
Familiarise yourself with some of the examples.
Answer the following questions giving examples where
appropriate:
“How has globalisation contributed to new forms of
criminality?”
“In what way can the state be accused of taking part in
criminal activity”
Key terms snake
Swale kit
 Pages 7-18
 Choose tasks depending on time