Globalisation, green crimes, human rights and state crimes

• Understand the ways in which globalisation and crime are related and be able to evaluate explanations of this relationship
• Understand different types of green crime and evaluate how this contributes to environmental harm
• Understand the relationship between state crimes and huiman rights, evaluate such crimes.



There have been a number of crimes that criminologists want to explore that are contemporary in nature. This includes crimes that have been affected by globalisation, the crimes against the environment as well as state crimes and crimes against human rights that are constantly occurring around the world. As criminologists, we want to understand what these crimes are and the reasons for these crimes. Also, what it is that societies do about them - if anything.

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Examine the relationship between crimes against the environment and the process of globalisation (12 marks)