1. From Memory No Discussion No Prompts
Immediate Activity
Spaced Retrieval
From Memory No Discussion No Prompts
Which of these is not a media news value?
Immediacy
Dramatisation
Higher status
Complexity
Which of these sociologist argues the Black criminality is a myth
Gilroy
Philips and Bowling
Hall
Lea and Young
What according to right realist is the purpose of a burglar alarm?
Target hardening
Reduce provocations
Remove excuses
Increase the cost
Education throw back question:
Define the term “ethnocentric curriculum”

2. Globalisation and crime
Wednesday, 03 April 2019
Globalisation and crime
Lesson 1: TOPIC 8
The link between globalisation and crime made by key sociologists
The ways in which globalisation has led to increased and new forms of crime, including green, state and human rights crimes
Evaluation of key schools of thought, how practical are their views when we consider real life?
Globalisation, Glocal, McMafia, capitalism

3. What is globalisation?
Globalisation refers to the increasing interconnectedness of societies, so that what happens in one locality is shaped by distant events and vice versa.
Globalisation has many causes :
the spread of new information and communication technologies
the influence of global mass media
cheap air travel
the deregulation of financial and other markets and their opening up to competition
easier movement so that businesses can relocate to countries where profits will be greater.

4. Key words- You must be able to confidently define each of these by the end of this week’s lesson.
Globalisation Transnational organised crime Risk consciousness Deregulation Crimes of globaisation Glocal McMafia

5. The nature and extent of global crime
Held et al suggest there has been a globalisation of crime – an interconnectedness of crime across national borders. This has led to the spread of transnational organised crime.
Manuel Castells argues that there is now a global criminal economy worth over £1 trillion per annum. This takes a number of forms:
Arms trafficking
Trafficking in nuclear materials
Smuggling of illegal immigrants
Trafficking of women and children
The drugs trade
Cyber-crime
Green crime
International terrorism
Money laundering
In Columbia, an estimated 20% of the population depends on cocaine production for their livelihood and cocaine outsells all Columbia’s other exports combined!

6. Global risk consciousness
Globalisation creates new insecurities and produces a new mentality of ‘risk consciousness’ in which risk is seen as global rather than tied to a particular place. For example, the increased movement of people (asylum seekers, economic migrants) has given rise to anxieties in the West about the need to protect their borders. Much of our knowledge about risks come from the media – exaggerated. For example, negative coverage of immigrants as scroungers ‘flooding’ the country. This leads to intensification of social control at a national level, for example toughened border control.

7. Misha Glenny – TED talk
While watching the video, complete the questions to develop your understanding of Glenny’s key concept McMafia

8. From Memory No Discussion No Prompts
Immediate Activity
Spaced Retrieval
From Memory No Discussion No Prompts
According to Castells which two types of crime has developed as a consequences of globalisation
Street robbery
Weapons trafficking
Cyber crime
Assault
The liberation thesis claims that as women gain more freedom in society female crime rate rise but who’s theory is it?
Adler
Carlen
Messerschmidt
Moral panics lead to deviancy amplification, what does this mean
Family throw back question: Identify and explain two reasons for the increase in divorce since the 1970’s

9. How has globalisation affected crime?
Cultural globalisation – the spread of consumerist ideology in a bulimic media-saturated society.
Global risk society – adds to the uncertainty and insecurity of modern life.
Disorganised capitalism – deregulation, marketization and privatisation. Less social cohesion and more insecurity.
Supply and demand – demand for drugs, sex workers, body parts and cheap labour in affluent countries supplied by poor countries.
Growing individualisation – individuals in late modernity are left to find their own solutions to globally produced problems.
More inequality – creates more winners and losers in the global marketplace.
More opportunities – for new types of crime and ways of committing it.

10. Focus on key theorists Summary task
Ian Taylor-
Hobbs and Dunningham
Misha Glenny

11. Globalisation, capitalism and crime
Ian Taylor (1997) – globalisation has created greater inequality and rising crime at both ends of the social spectrum. It has allowed transnational corporations to switch manufacturing to low-wage countries, producing job insecurity, unemployment and poverty. Marketisation has encouraged people to see themselves as individual consumers, increasing materialistic culture and seeing success in terms of a lifestyle of consumption. All of these factors create insecurity and widening inequalities that encourage people to turn to crime. The lack of legitimate jobs means that people turn to illegitimate means. Globalisation also creates criminal opportunities on a grand scale for elite groups. For example the deregulation of financial markets has created opportunities for insider trading. But, Taylor doesn’t adequately explain how the changes make people behave in criminal ways.

12. Your task Neo Marxist views on globalisation and crime
Use the handout to complete the following:
1) Taylor argues that capitalism is one of the primary drivers for global crime (supported by Glenny who argues consumerism drives it) explain how global capitalism and has lead to increased crime at all social class levels.
2) Ruggiero argues that the people who suffer most from global capitalism are the poor use examples to support this claim.

14. Patterns of criminal organisation – ‘glocal’ organisation
These new forms of organisation sometimes have international links, but crime is still rooted in its local context. Hobbs and Dunningham therefore conclude that crime works as a glocal system. It is locally based but with global connections eg drugs trade H&D argue that changes associated with globalisation have led to changes in patterns of crime – for example the shift from the rigidly hierarchical gang structure to opportunistic entrepreneurial criminals.

15. Patterns of criminal organisation – McMafia
McMafia – Glenny (2008) uses this term to refer to the organisations that emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe following the fall of communism. The collapse of the communist state heralded a period of increasing disorder. To protect their wealth, capitalists turned to the ‘mafias’ that had begun to spring up. These were often alliances between former KGB men and ex-convicts. Among the most ruthless were the Chechen mafia. The new Russian mafias were purely economic organisations formed to pursue self interest.

16. Evaluation of crime and globalisation theories
Is valuable as it focuses on the newest forms of crime.
BUT it is very hard to investigate – secretive and complex in nature.
Dependence on secondary sources; primary research may be dangerous.
It is easy to exaggerate the significance of globalisation – it has affected some countries more than others.
Much crime still tends to be fairly routine, low-level offences committed in local communities.
It has led to more interconnectedness in global law enforcement.

17. Key words- You must be able to confidently define each of these by the end of this week’s lesson.
Short term Retrieval
Globalisation Transnational organised crime Risk consciousness Deregulation Crimes of globaisation Glocal McMafia

18. Where we are heading…. Using material from Item B and elsewhere, evaluate the view that the process of globalisation has led to changes in both the amount of crime and the types of crime committed. 30 marks
Item B
Some sociologists define globalisation as an increasing interconnectedness in the world. Globalisation is multi-causal, and there are a number of key processes and events that may have aided its development, including:
technological innovation
global crises
the end of the Cold War
the growth of transnational organisations
the expansion of free trade.
Views on the impact of globalisation on crime vary. Globalisation has led to changes in the opportunities to commit crime. This has meant increases in some types of crime such as fraud, and new crimes such as cyber crime.