Globalisation and Crime (OCR A-Level Sociology): Flashcards

Widening, deepening & speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness

Over £1 trillion per annum

$322 billion each year

$27 billion each year

Transnational organised crime mirroring legal corporations

Local contexts with global links - interconnectivity of local & global

The study of harms (regardless of legality)

Direct harm to the environment

Crime from flouting rules preventing environmental disasters

Around 25,000 deaths

Illegal/deviant activities by/with complicity of state agencies

'It didn't happen' - state denies the event occurred

'It's something else' - e.g. collateral damage/self-defence

Globalisation creates insecurity & manufactured risks from human actions

Worst environmental harm victims differ ethnically from perpetrators