Globalisation, Green Crime and State Crime

The study of crime has traditionally focused on offending by individuals within national borders. However, three interconnected developments have expanded the scope of criminology: globalisation has created new forms of transnational crime; growing awareness of environmental harm has raised questions about the criminalisation of ecological damage; and attention to state crime has challenged the assumption that crime is committed only by individuals and corporations against the state.

Key Definition: Globalisation is the increasing interconnectedness of societies across the world through the movement of goods, capital, information, and people. It creates both new opportunities for crime and new challenges for crime prevention.

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Globalisation and Crime

Manuel Castells: The Network Society

Manuel Castells (1998) argued that globalisation has created a network society in which flows of capital, information, and people cross national borders with unprecedented speed and ease. This has transformed the nature of crime in several ways: