Globalisation refers to the increasing interconnectedness of societies, the shrinking of the world in a social, cultural and economic sense. Globalisation has many causes including spread of ICT, the global mass media, cheap flight and easy movements of businesses. Many crimes now happen on a global scale due to globalisation such as cyber-crime and drug and people trafficking. Castells (1998) argues because of globalisation there is a globalised criminal economy worth £1 trillion. This is from different crimes such as arms dealing, human trafficking, green crime, sex tourism, smuggling illegal immigrants and trafficking in body parts as well as others. The global criminal economy has both a demand and supply side, the third world countries fulfill the demand in the west. For example with drugs and prostitutes, in the third world drug producing country of Columbia, the poor people rely on producing drugs to supply to the west to keep them and their families alive this then links to the globalisation process. Their main drug production is cocaine as it is simple to produce, they get high prices for it and it sells better than other drugs. This means that not only countries in the west that consume the drugs have to be looked at its also the third world countries that produce these drugs that need to be looked at also. Taylor (1997) argues globalisation has led to changes in the pattern and extent of crime. By giving free rein to market forces globalisation has created bigger problems in inequality and rising crime. Globalisation has created crime at both ends of the social spectrum. It has allowed transnational corporations to switch manufacturing to low wage countries, producing job insecurity, unemployment and poverty. Deregulation means government has little control over their own economies, for example to create jobs or raise taxes while state spending on welfare has declined. Left realists argue increasingly materialistic culture promoted by the global media portrays success in terms of lifestyle of consumption. All these issues together create insecurity and more inequality which then encourages people specifically the poor to commit crimes that they may not have done if they weren’t put in this situation. The lack of opportunities for these people means that they lose their self-respect which then means they give up looking for jobs and turn to illegal employment. Globalisation allows there to be more opportunities for criminals due to deregulation of financial markets gives people the opportunity move their funds to other countries to avoid tax, this is more likely a crime to be committed by people earning a substantial amount of money rather than the poor. Also employers now choose to employ illegal immigrants as they can pay them less than anyone else and don’t have to pay them the minimum wage. Taylor’s theory would be helpful if you were wanting to link global trends in the capitalist economy or if you wanted to look at changes in crime patterns. However it doesn’t properly explain how the changes make people decide on crime and what makes them behave in that way. For example it’s not all the poor that turn to crime and also high earning people turn to crime as well they just commit different ones such as money laundering and avoid having to pay tax on all of their money. Hobbs and Dunningham came up with the term ‘glocal organisation’ this is the idea that eventhough globalisation has led to people commiting crimes on a global scale, criminals still rely on their local contacts and networks to be able to carry on. For example they would still have to find the opportunities to sell drugs in their local area after getting the drugs from third world countries. Also there is now green crime that has become more relevant that can be linked to globalisation, atmospheric pollution from one country often has devastating effect on another. Overall even though globalisation has made changes to the crimes commited and added more crimes, people still have to rely on their local area to keep the crimes commited work.