Exam 35: Green Criminology

From 2005 house arrest was one of the restrictions placed upon people in the UK subject to control orders.

In the UK there are strict limits on the length of time people can be held in Immigration detention centres.

What are the criticisms of traditional criminology's lack of attention to state crime?

What does it mean to say that globalisation is 'the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (Giddens, 1990: 64)?

What evidence is there of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK creating tensions?

Why is the concept of 'protecting our borders' an illustration of globalisation-induced insecurities?

In terms of methods, has globalisation said to have shifted the nature of terrorism?

What were the two primary reasons given by Lord Irvine (2004) for the European Convention on Human Rights to take half a century be incorporated into British domestic law via the Human Rights Act 1998?

The definition of state crime includes the excessive use of violence by the police in urban ghettoes.

Give one reason, in terms of nation states, why globalisation is important to criminologists.

Why do critical criminologists question the role of the state as a guarantor of security?

Give one reason why criminologists talk about globalisation affecting crime.

How can the topic of 'Human Rights' be described?

Why are criminologists now (rather belatedly) interested in terrorism?

Discussing criminology and human rights, what are the three major gaps identified by Stan Cohen (1993)?

How is the term 'globalisation' used in everyday language?

Why is the term genocide open to dispute?

International law has, at its heart, the idea of state sovereignty.

How did the end of the Cold War lead to the emergence of a privatised military industry?

The Universal Declaration on Human Rights did not impose legal obligations on states, but rather standards toward which they were expected to aspire as an 'intentionally unenforceable, self-consciously a mission statement for humanity'.