Crime in Contemporary Society - Reasons for Global Crime | A-Level Sociology

welcome to this tor to you sociology topic video on crime in contemporary Society focusing on the reasons for Global crime one of the main reasons for the increase in global crimes relates to the changes in society that have occurred as a result of globalization and this has led to increased volumes of international crime and different types

of crime some of the features of globalization that have made crime easier to commit include increased air travel resulting in more people moving through ports and airports making trafficking easier increased cultural homogeneity increasing the levels of inequality in societies and introducing relative deprivation the deregulation of financial markets has led to more instances of moneya laundering and the

expansion of free trade has led to more corporate and green crimes and advances in information technology which both make us more aware of things like State Crime and have also increased the amount of cyber crime in society now sociologists have taken different views on the process a globalization but more pessimistic globalists have described some of the

negative effects of globalization on society through criminal activities Taylor suggested that the expansion of capitalism through free trade agreements and the expansion of production and distribution networks has led to an increased exploitation of people which ultimately leads to more people turn into crime and black markets to make ends meet Castell highlights that in the

period of globalization Global criminal economies account for $1 trillion of economic activity while more recent estimates place the value of global crime at around about $2.5 trillion if we can make a comparison the UK's gross domestic product in 2019 was 2.1 trillion or $2.8 trillion and this shows us the scale of global