Investigating Consumer Demand for Counterfeit Goods: Examining the Ability of Social Learning and Low Self-Control to Explain Volitional Purchase of Non-deceptive Counterfeit Products in an Eastern European College Sample

Zoltan-Levente Fejes, 2016

Product counterfeiting is an interdisciplinary phenomenon that has relatively recently emerged as a field of interest for criminologists. Consequently, a clear understanding of product counterfeiting from a criminological perspective is lacking, as the application of criminological theory to this crime type as well as any guidance for the analyses of the phenomenon is limited at this time (Heinonen, Holt & Wilson, 2012).

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