Download An example of people trafficking in the news would be the Chinese

Globalisation and Crime
What is globalisation?
• McGrew (1992): Globalisation is
the process whereby events,
decisions and activities in one part
of the world have significant
consequences for people on the
other side of the world:
• “Nowadays goods, capital, people,
knowledge, images,
communications, crime, culture,
pollutants, drugs, fashions and
belief all readily flow across
territorial boundaries”.
• Basically, globalisation is the
process of Western culture
influencing areas of the third world
in all aspects, and in return their
culture, to a degree, has an impact
on us.
Globalisation and Crime.
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Ian Taylor (1997) states that global
capitalism allows multinational
corporations to move from country to
country in the search for profitability.
This has reduced job security and
increased unemployment, especially
in the manufacturing industry.
Taylor believes this has lead to some
working class men to turn to crime.
He also states that problems like
these have led to the development of
an underclass in America, but unlike
Murray, he argues that this is due to
material deprivation instead of a
dependancy culture.
• A good example to support
Taylor’s argument is when
Kraft took over the Cadbury
company in 2010, and
moved the factories over to
Poland where labour was
cheaper. As a result, all of
the Cadbury workers in
England were made
redundant.
Drug Trafficking
• The drug trade was the first illegal
sector to maximise profits in a
globalised world.
• Drugs are produced cheaply in
South America and the Middle East
and are transported to the West via
well established routes.
• Globalisation has made drug
trafficking far quicker and easier,
and detection less likely.
• The human cost is devastating, it
has been estimated that illegal drug
use is responsible for 52,000
American deaths each year.
• It is also worth mentioning that
within the communities of this
trade, vulnerable people are
exploited.
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People
Trafficking
People Traffciking has
happened throughout history
(the slave trade in the 18th
Century) but Globalisation has
made the buisness eaiser and
more profitable.
• Adults can be transported for
prostitution, forced labour and
the removal of organs.
• Children are also trafficked, for
prostitution, illegal adoption,
forced marriage and as
soldiers. Traffickers use
deception, coercion, fraud or
abduction.
• An example of people
trafficking in the news
would be the Chinese
cockle picker disaster in
Morecambe 2004.
• 20 Illegal immigrants were
found dead on the Bay.
• They had been swept up
by the tide due to their
employers failing to
inform them the right time
for when the tide was
coming in.
• It was known that they
were living in squalor, and
paid an inadequate
amount to survive on,
which was £5 for every
25Kg of cockles they
collected.
Cybercrime
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Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing
criminal activities in the developed world.
It includes financial scams, computer hacking,
virus attacks, creating websites that promote
racial and religious hatred, stalking by Email,
and identity theft.
Cybercrime has been made possible by the
increased reliance on computers in homes and
businesses, and by the spread of the internet.
It has been estimated that a cybercrime takes
place every 10 seconds in the UK.
It is also worth noting that the spread of the
internet on a national and global level has been
a major contribution to the spread and creation
of child pornography and the growth of large
paedophile rings.
Here is an example of websites that spread
notions of intolerance and hatred:
(http://www.signmovies.com/) This is the
Westboro Baptist church, a small religious
community based in the deep south of America.