The Illicit Medicines Trade from Within

An Analysis of the Demand and Supply Sides of the Illicit Market for Lifestyle Medicines
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6236-826-2
Verlag: eleven

Buch, Englisch, Band 89, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Willem Pompe Instituut

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 indepth 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. In order to understand how actors operate, compete and develop trust relations, as well as how the illicit market is structured, this study is built on a mixed-method approach of both qualitative and quantitative data. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koenraadt, Rosa

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pharmazie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Pharmaindustrie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rosa Koenraadt (Amsterdam, 1985) conducted this research project as part of the Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC) program, and was affiliated with both Utrecht University and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She currently works as a lecturer and researcher in Criminology at Utrecht University’s Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology.