Discuss the relationship between Social Exclusion and Global Crime in the European Union
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Discuss the relationship between Social Exclusion and Global Crime in the European Union Mobility - the movement of goods, money, people, ideas and software - occurs across national geo-political borders, and across politically bounded geographical spaces, both physically and virtually through computers. This mobility has a relationship to neo-liberalism - a set of theories that are based on the assumption that free-markets and minimal states are the best ways to organise social life and maximise prosperity and freedom for populations. These theories translated into a set of policies characterised by an emphasis on deregulation and flexibility, privatisation, marketisation, and residualisation (minimal welfare state). Neo-liberalism has proved very attractive as a policy framework in many countries, as well as in many institutions that affect national policies, such as the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Globally, it has captured the high ground of policy-making. Because neo-liberalism supports the dismantling of...

