Globalisation + Organised crime

Rothe and Friedrichs

• IMF and World Bank's Structural Adjustment Programs

IMF & World Bank - Rothe and Friedrichs

The IMF (international monetary fund) and world bank create the conditions which increase crime. Offering capital to developing countries on the condition: structural adjustment programmes.

Structural Adjustment Programs - Rothe and Friedrichs

Countries must marketise their economy to get the investment. This may mean cutting on public spending on: housing, education, healthcare or privatising public services. e.g water. Criminal subcultures thrive in these conditions increasing: drug crime, prostitution and more.

Glenny

• collapse of USSR

• growth of globally organised mafias

collapse of USSR - Glenny

TOCs grew as a result of this. New capitalists needed security in the lawlessness society and turned to organised crime networks.

growth of globally organised mafias - Glenny

Global organised crime networks are based on: 'zones of production, distribution and consumption'. e.g Russian mafias control the ZOP of heroine in Asia, the ZOD is eastern Europe and the ZOC is European streets and American urban centres.