The Illicit Medicines Trade From Within
An Analysis of the Demand and Supply Sides of the Illicit Market for Lifestyle Medicines
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The Illicit Medicines Trade From Within
An Analysis of the Demand and Supply Sides of the Illicit Market for Lifestyle Medicines
About this book
In recent decades all sorts of illicit medicines have been increasingly traded world-wide: from antibiotics to weight loss drugs, and antimalarial tablets to steroids. The illicit medicines market is generally associated with considerable health risks for its users, as well as with high revenues and a perceived growing degree of criminal organization. It is therefore important to gain extensive criminological insights into this global market. This book provides in-depth and empirically-grounded theoretical insights into the online and offline trade in illicit pharmaceuticals, with particular reference to lifestyle pharmaceuticals. Trade in the Netherlands and manufacturing in China are taken as extended case studies. The author primarily focuses on the activities, dynamics and structure of the illicit market in the Netherlands, and on the production and transnational distribution of illicit medicines in and from China. By means of interviews with actors directly involved in the trade, analysis of court cases, a survey study, and an online analysis, this book provides thorough and rich insights into the actors, dynamics, and social organization of the flourishing illicit medicines market. This title is part of the Pompe series, publications that combine legal and social-scientific approaches to the problems of criminal law, written by staff members of the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht and by authors who share the Institute's school of thought. Dissertation. (Series: Willem Pompe Institute, Vol. 89) [Subject: Criminology]
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Abstract
- List of abbreviations
- List of tables and figures
- Chapter 1 Introduction and background
- Chapter 2 Theoretical perspectives on illicit markets and medicines
- Chapter 3 Methodological issues: researching the illicit market for lifestyle medicines
- Chapter 4 Trends, prevalence and types of illicit medicines traded in the Netherlands
- Chapter 5 Understanding the demand for (illicit) lifestyle medicines
- Chapter 6 Retail level of the market: buyers, sellers and trust
- Chapter 7 Social organization of the market
- Chapter 8 Manufacturing level: a case study on China
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Summary
- Samenvatting
- References
- Appendix I List of interviews
- Appendix II Checklist websites
- Appendix III Checklist court cases
- Appendix IV Questions first prevalence survey
- Appendix V Questions second prevalence study
- Acknowledgements
- Curriculum Vitae