Topics: Industry Specific

A Preliminary Investigation into Pharmaceutical Counterfeiters in the United States

Jay Kennedy and Jeremy Wilson, 2018 Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is one of the most pressing public health concerns in the United States and abroad, and recently an increasing amount of scholarly attention has been given to this issue. However, the extant literature lacks a systematic investigation of the specific roles undertaken within pharmaceutical counterfeiting schemes. We …

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Clicking Into Harms Way: The Decision to Purchase Regulated Goods Online

Jay Kennedy and Jeremy Wilson, 2017 Counterfeit products are a significant global risk to brands and those who hold intellectual property rights to them. They also pose significant risks to public health and safety, the economy, and even national security. Given consumer and organizational dependence on branded products, virtually everyone is vulnerable to counterfeits and …

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An Empirical Examination of Product Counterfeiting Crime Impacting the U.S. Military

Brandon Sullivan and Jeremy Wilson, 2017 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. With the goal of illustrating the nature of the risk as it relates to types of counterfeit parts, how they …

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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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Occupational Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting Schemes: A Crimes Script Analysis

Jay Kennedy, Corey Haberman and Jeremy Wilson, 2016 This article presents a crime script for pharmaceutical counterfeiting schemes perpetrated by licensed health care professionals; we term these types of schemes occupational pharmaceutical counterfeiting. To date, there have been no empirical investigations of these schemes, nor any attempts to disentangle their many elements and components. Using qualitative …

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Review of Book: “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines”

Ksenia Petlakh, 2014 Roger Bate’s Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines takes the reader through a critical analysis of counterfeit medicine and discusses potential unintended consequences of securing the drug supply in developing countries. 2014 Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees. For the full review, click here.

Assessing the Risks of Counterfeiting and Illicit Diversion of Health Care Products

Chris Trent, 2013 Counterfeit and Illicit Diversion Risks in the Health Care Industry Counterfeiting and illicit diversion of health care products are substantial and growing threats.  In 2010, the World Health Organization stated that worldwide sales of counterfeit medicines would top US$ 75 billion, a 90% rise in five years.1   Many countries in Africa and parts …

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The Health and Economic Effects of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals in Africa

Jeremy Wilson, Roy Fenoff and A-CAPP Center Staff, 2011 The Health and Economic Effects of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals in Africa is an article of the globalEDGE business review that describes the negative impacts of pharmaceutical product counterfeiting in Africa. The in-depth analysis provides several cause and effect relationships in the context of the drug industry with research from the Anti-Counterfeiting and …

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Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting

Jeremy Wilson, 2011 This article was published in International Organized Crime: The African Experience. Subscription may be required to read the full publication.  2011 Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees. To read the full report, click here.