Fake Meds Online: The Internet and the Transnational Market in Illicit Pharmaceuticals

by Georgios A. Antonopoulos and Alexandra Hall

This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online. Some estimates suggest that the fake medicine trade has now overtaken marijuana and prostitution as the world's largest market for criminal traffickers. This increase has been particularly apparent in the context of various evolutionary phases in information and communications technologies, and the Internet now acts as the main avenue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137570873
• ISBN13: 9781137570871
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.7"