Content Type: A-CAPP Backgrounder

Assessing and Building on Four Decades of Product Counterfeiting Research

Brandon A. Sullivan, Fiona Chan, Roy Fenoff and Jeremy Wilson, 2017 For researchers to advise efforts to combat product counterfeiting, they must first establish what is known about it. As a first step in doing so, A-CAPP Center researchers conducted a content analysis of 47 articles discussing product counterfeiting and published in criminal justice and …

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Explaining Consumer Demand for Counterfeit Goods: Social Learning or Low Self-Control?

Zoltán Levente Fejes, 2017 Two competing theoretical explanations for the knowing purchase of counterfeit goods are Akers’ Social Learning Theory and Gottfredson and Hirschi’s Low Self-Control Theory. This A-CAPP Center Backgrounder reports results of a survey among Romanian university students about volitional purchase of non-deceptive counterfeits in physical market settings. The survey found such purchases …

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Partnerships and the Battle Against Product Counterfeits

Brandon Sullivan, Rod Kinghorn and Jeremy Wilson, 2017 Partnerships between brand owners, governments, academics, consumers, and other stakeholders are essential to tackling the pervasive and persistent global problem of product counterfeiting. This Backgrounder highlights the importance of these partnerships, the need for widespread recognition of the shared nature of problems, and the development of solutions …

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Counterfeit Parts in the U.S. Department of Defense Supply Chain

Brandon Sullivan and Jeremy Wilson, 2016 Counterfeit parts in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain threaten national security by compromising critical military operations and placing the lives of military service members at risk. These counterfeits are difficult to identify and are reported inconsistently when discovered. In an effort to raise awareness and generate …

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Virtual Communities as Guardians Against Product Counterfeiting in the Athletic Footwear Industry

George Adams, 2016 As legitimate online commerce has grown, so has the use of the Internet for distributing and selling counterfeit goods. Goods with extended supply chains or limited supply that lead consumers to purchase them through secondary markets can be particularly vulnerable to counterfeiting. Physical communities can help prevent victimization given the proximity they …

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Measuring Product Counterfeiting: Insights from Current Research and Practice

Jeremy Wilson and Brandon Sullivan, 2016 Estimates of product counterfeiting vary widely in what they measure and when, how, and where they measure it. Yet measurements remain vital both for showing the extent of counterfeiting as well as determining how to address it. A-CAPP Center researchers compiled common practices for measuring counterfeiting, their strengths and …

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The Global Risk of Product Counterfeiting: The Facilitators of the Criminal Opportunity

Jeremy M. Wilson and Rod Kinghorn, 2015 Product counterfeiting represents a growing, global risk that poses many negative consequences for consumers, businesses, governments, national security, the economy, and society. Research suggests that the first step in formulating effective strategies to combat such crime is to understand what shapes the nature of the criminal opportunity. This …

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The Nexus Between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting

Brandon Sullivan, Steve Chermak, Jeremy Wilson and Joshua Freilich, 2014 Terrorists have increasingly been linked to product counterfeiting, but evidence for this connection has been mostly anecdotal and speculative. We use the Extremist Financial Crime Database and the Michigan State University Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection’s Incident Database to provide an overview of both …

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Distinguishing Counterfeit from Authorized Retailers in the Virtual Marketplace

Jeremy M. Wilson and Roy Fenoff, 2014 The growth of Internet commerce provides an expanding venue for sellers of counterfeit products. ACAPP researchers explored the characteristics of legitimate and counterfeit websites for a luxury apparel maker and a brand-name audio electronics manufacturer. Counterfeit websites had some distinguishing characteristics likely linked to their transient nature, but …

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