ATS1282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transnational Crime, Money Laundering, People Smuggling
11 Sep 2013
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Crime has tended to be local in nature: occurring within country, state borders. The responsibility of combating crime is local in nature: laws are local in nature, are policed locally, punishment occurs locally. Global and local responses e. g. the end of the human rights treaty (global); how we immediately deal with boat people when they arrive (local). Global and local impact e. g. local policies about how and when people smuggling is dealt with. Scholte (2000) suggests 5 definitions: *fill in: internationalisation, liberalisation opening up of borders and markets around the world. Can cause criminalisation to arise: universalisation, westernisation/modernisation, deterritorialisation. Powerful states being able to push certain agendas and overpower unpowerful states. Space-time compression: increased speed of communication and movement of ideas, information, capital and people. The world is smaller and we can do things easier and quicker. The concept of crime is shifting due to: changes in technology.
