Fake Meds Online

The Internet and the Transnational Market in Illicit Pharmaceuticals

Alexandra Hall, Georgios A. Antonopoulos (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-84861-4 (ISBN)

Titel wird leider nicht erscheinen

Artikel merken

This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online. Drawing on the authors' own criminological investigation of both the supply and demand sides in the United Kingdom, this study offers the first in-depth and empirically-grounded analysis of the online trade in illicit medicines.

This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online. Some estimates suggest that the fake medicine trade has now overtaken marijuana and prostitution as the world's largest market for criminal traffickers. This increase has been particularly apparent in the context of various evolutionary phases in information and communications technologies, and the Internet now acts as the main avenue through which this criminal market is expanding. Thus far - despite growing concern and media attention - this extensive, extremely profitable, and ultimately life-threatening online market is yet to be fully explored. Drawing on the authors' own criminological investigation of both the supply and demand sides in the United Kingdom, this study offers the first in-depth and empirically-grounded analysis of the online trade in illicit medicines. Founded on rigorous research, and bolstering a rich area for debate, this book will be of particular interest for scholars of criminology and technology studies.

Alexandra Hall is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Business and Law, Teesside University, UK. Georgios A. Antonopoulos is Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Business and Law, Teesside University, UK.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Online Trade in Illicit Pharmaceuticals: The UK Context.- 3. The Demand-Side.- 4. The Supply-Side.- 5. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 144 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik
Schlagworte	Counterfeiting • cybercrime • drug trafficking • Illegal medecines • online market • pharmaceuticals
ISBN-10	1-349-84861-1 / 1349848611
ISBN-13	978-1-349-84861-4 / 9781349848614
Zustand	Neuware