Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Crime 1
- INTRO
- Dependent on time / place / culture
- Changing moral / social ideas
- Interrelations unearthed between crime and social harm
- CONCLUSION
- EPZs - corporations abusing power
- Asbestos - lobbyist power and influence
- Harm shows crime policies influenced by powerful
- Trafficking showed harm caused yet victims treated as criminals
- HUMAN TRAFFICKING
- Against will, abused, raped -> criminal
- EVA
- Africa - London
- Abused, raped
- Escaped, sent to prison
- Home Office trying to deport
- Multiple rape, abuse, unwillingly in country yet seen as criminal
- TRAFFICKING
- Unwilling
- No need for border cross
- Held against wull
- Abused, raped
- Lured by false pretences
- SMUGGLING
- Payment
- Border crossed
- No contact after crossing
- ASBESTOS
- 100,000 die a year, 125 million exposed
- Lobbyists delayed effective regulation for 60 years
- View of crime as individual helped this happen
- Media and policy makers view of crime as individual
- Suppressed damning scientific research,
lying to workers, funding own research,
cover ups
- EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES
- SAIPAN
- US island but no US law
- Used by brands such as GAP - 'Made in
USA' for marketing
- Work in 'sweatshop' like conditions but have no labour rights
- MALAYSIA
- Considered setting up labour union for
electronic workers
- US electronic firms threatened to
relocate so plans scrapped
- 43 million workers in 5,000 EPZs
- Areas with minimal or no law to
attract big corporations
- Abuse power, cause much harm, not held to account
- No health & safety
regulations or labour rights
- THEORISTS
- Quinney - Powerful translate their wants and interests into criminal policy
- Salmi - Violence narrowly equated to murder / war but means
psychological / physical integrity threatened
- Law has narrow focus on street crime
- Crimes of the past in UK no longer crimes
here but may be elsewhere eg homosexual
acts, punishable by death elsewhere in
extermist response
- Hillyard & Tombs - many types of harm eg living in poverty / cultural exclusion not central in crime policies
- Michael & Adler - Most precise definition is legal
'prohibited by criminal code'
- Individualises crime, focus on interpersonal violence not
faceless corporate crime