Author: Justin Heinonen

  Product Counterfeiting in Michigan and the Expectations and Priorities for State and Local Law Enforcement: Assessing the Awareness of and Response to the Problem John Spink and Justin Heinonen, 2012 The crime of product counterfeiting is growing in scope, scale, and threat. These threats impact Michigan residents, as they do others throughout the U.S. […]

  Anti-Counterfeit Countermeasures -Tactics Evolving to Strategies Click here to read the full publication Justin Heinonen, John Spink and Doug Moyer, 2012     This article was published in Packaging World Magazine. Subscription may be required to view publication.  2012 Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees. To read the full publication, click here.   […]

  Product Counterfeits in the Online Environment: An Empirical Assessment of Victimization and Reporting Characteristics Click here to read the full article Jeremy Wilson, Justin Heinonen and Thomas Holt, 2012   The growing pace of e-commerce has facilitated the sale and distribution of counterfeit products. One reason may be that consumers cannot fully validate goods […]

  Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting in the US: Differentiating Dimensions of the Risk Read the Full Article Justin Heinonen and Jeremy Wilson, 2011   The creation of a product counterfeiting database highlights variation in known incidents of counterfeit pharmaceuticals across several important dimensions.  By understanding how these incidents differ, researchers can provide empirical insights into the problem, […]

  The A-CAPPP Product Counterfeiting Incident Database: A Resource for Advancing Research and Policy Read the Full Article Jeremy Wilson and Justin Heinonen, 2011   The creation of a national product counterfeiting incident database allows researchers a unique opportunity to generate evidence-based anti-counterfeiting strategy through the analysis of data and evidence.  Integrating the tenets of […]