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Sociology: Globalisation and Crime 2 - Statistics
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| Cultural Globalisation | This is caused by globalisation: -With the spread of consumerist ideology in a bulimic media-saturated society. -Left Realist Jock Young - young people have grown up with 'full immersion in the American Dream, a culture hooked on Gucci, BMW, Nikes', but without the economic means to achieve the goals of consumer culture. This can cause Transnational Organised Crime. | 100%
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| Disorganised Capitalism | This is caused by globalisation: -Deregulation, marketisation, and privatisation. -Less social cohesion and opportunity, more insecurity. This can cause Transnational Organised Crime. | 100%
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| First Capital Command (PCC) | This Brazilian prison gang arose in the country's notoriously brutal penitentiaries 30 years ago but now controls a billion-dollar drug trade supplying much of Europe's cocaine:-It has been considered a jailhouse fraternity for much of its existence, which recruited incarcerated 'brothers' by offering them protection within Brazil's violent, overcrowded prisons. -Created in August 1993, it grew into Brazil's most feared criminal faction, conquering drug markets, smuggling routes, shantytowns and prisons across Brazil, including in far-flung corners of the Amazon. -It also became a major player in other South American countries such as neighbouring Paraguay where the group has been blamed for multimillion-dollar armed robberies and bombings, and targeted assassinations. -But over the past 5 years, investigators say the gang, which the US now calls one of the most powerful organised crime groups - has morphed into an even more formidable force after forging lucrative alliances with partners ranging from Bolivian cocaine producers to Italian Mafiosi. -Today, the group boasts 10s of thousands of members and has a growing portfolio of interests, including illegal goldmines in the Amazon. -It controls one of South America's most important trafficking routes - linking Bolivia and Brazil to Europe and Africa - and is partly responsible for a tsunami of cocaine that has brought car bombings, assassinations and gunfights to parts of Europe. -"If someone is using cocaine in France, England or Spain there's a very good chance it got there through the hands of the PCC", said Lincoln Gakiya, a prosecutor from São Paulo. -São Paulo's organised crime taskforce, Gaeco, who estimates the group now makes $1 billion a year - almost entirely from international trafficking. | 100%
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| Global Risk Society | This is caused by globalisation: -Globalisation adds to the insecurity of life in late modernity. -Ulrich Beck says we have become more 'risk conscious' and fearful - we no longer have the security of structures like religion or national identity. -The media fuels our fears and frightens our sense of the 'threat' of crime. This can cause Transnational Organised Crime. | 100%
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| Growing Individualisation | This is caused by globalisation: -Individuals in late modernity are left to find their own solutions to globally produced problems. -Zygmunt Bauman argues that in a postmodern society, 'you are what you buy'. -We live in a consumer-based, individualised society. -People have lost sense of structure and community have are more focused on selfish individual rewards. This can cause Transnational Organised Crime. | 100%
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| Ian Taylor (1997) | This Marxist sociologist argues:-Capitalism has led to increased insecurity for poorer people in society and also the risk of exploitation. -The world is more and more unequal - the rich powerful global companies versus the workers. -The more disadvantaged people are, the more relative deprivation is likely - this feeds crime. | 100%
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| Lash & Urry (1987) | These sociologists describe 'disorganised capitalism' as capitalism being allowed to run free:-Corporations have more power than countries and the lack of regulation and control has led to exploitation including human rights violations and environmental crime. -Marxists would highlight that selective law enforcement applies globally as well as locally. | 100%
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| More Inequality | This is caused by globalisation: -It creates winners and losers in the global marketplace. This can cause Transnational Organised Crime. | 100%
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| More Opportunities | This is caused by globalisation: -Globalisation opens up opportunities for new types of crime and ways of committing it. -The speed, convenience and anonymity of the online world enables criminals to commit illegal activity from anywhere in the world. -These crimes are really hard to detect. This can cause Transnational Organised Crime. | 100%
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| Supply and Demand | This is caused by globalisation: -Demand for drugs, sex workers, body parts and cheap labour in affluent countries supplied by the poor of developing countries. This can cause Transnational Organised Crime. | 100%
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