globalization

So, this chapter really caught my attention is so many ways. The connection discussed in the chapter between globalization and crime was the most interesting. The globalization of crime comes in so many different forms with so many different variations of its severity. It can go from something so serious as selling sex slaves from country to country to something that could be considered minor like the selling of fake designer merchandise on the streets of some neighborhoods. One crime that was discussed in the chapter that I never really thought about as globalization was drugs. Drugs are sold, traded, and then sold in our country. But where does the drug trade start? The networks of production, distribution or protection are all a part of globalization. Each plays a major and necessary part in the sales of drugs. Drugs are usually produced in another country other than the United States. If they are produced in the United States they are sold in the country as well as outside the country. The distribution, is transferred from the production place to where its demand is greatest which would equal more money. The protection of drugs and globalization I'm still stuck on so someone should help me :) & the one thing that keeps the drug trade, the cartels, and the money flow continue is the demand for drugs. In chapter six, " About 8,000 Americans try drugs for the first time every single day." Drugs and crime itself are what keeps the criminal justice system alive. With crime, deviance, and the rules that society creates whether official or unofficial, allows for the criminal justice systems existence. Without these, their would be no criminal justice.