Topics: Nature of Counterfeiting

Measuring Product Counterfeiting: Insights from Current Research and Practice

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 …

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Occupational Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting Schemes: A Crimes Script Analysis

Occupational Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting Schemes: A Crimes Script Analysis Read the Full Article 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, …

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Charting the Course: The Roles and Responsibilities of Ocean-going Transportation Intermediaries in the Distribution of Counterfeit Goods

Charting the Course: The Roles and Responsibilities of Ocean-going Transportation Intermediaries in the Distribution of Counterfeit Goods Jeremy Wilson and Jay Kennedy, 2015 Introduction In July 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted FedEx for allegedly facilitating the shipment of controlled substances from illegal internet pharmacies to American consumers (U.S. DOJ, 2014).  This is not …

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

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 …

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

Review of Book: “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines” Read the full review 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 …

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Distinguishing Counterfeit from Authorized Retailers in the Virtual Marketplace

Distinguishing Counterfeit from Authorized Retailers in the Virtual Marketplace Click here to read the full article Roy Fenoff and Jeremy Wilson, 2014 Product counterfeiting is a large and growing crime that has many forms of victims, from consumers and corporations to governments and societies. Contributing to this growth, the Internet offers a means by which …

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The Nexus Between Terrorism and Product Counterfeiting in the United States

The Nexus Between Terrorism and Product Counterfeiting in the United States Click here to read the full article Brandon Sullivan, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermack and Jeremy Wilson, 2014 Terrorists use a wide variety of methods to fund their operations, obtain profits and carry out ideologically driven goals. Terrorist organisations have increasingly been linked to product counterfeiting …

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Routine Activities and Product Counterfeiting: A Research Note

Routine Activities and Product Counterfeiting: A Research Note Click here to read the full article Zoltán Levente Fejes, Roy Fenoff, Megan Hollis and Jeremy Wilson, 2014 Product counterfeiting has only recently emerged as an area of research interest for criminal justice and criminology scholars. As a consequence, criminological research and application of criminological theory to this phenomenon …

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The Nexus Between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting

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 …

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Who are the Guardians in Product Counterfeiting? A Theoretical Application of Routine Activities Theory

Who are the Guardians in Product Counterfeiting? A Theoretical Application of Routine Activities Theory Click here to read the full article Megan Hollis and Jeremy Wilson, 2014 Product counterfeiting, as an emerging problem, has seen limited scholarly attention. Although there has been an increase in the scholarly work in this area, much more remains to …

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