Product Counterfeiting & Illicit Markets

Product counterfeiting presents an enormous threat to brand owners, manufacturers, governments, and consumers around the world. Read More

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 is to understand what shapes the nature of the criminal opportunity. This Backgrounder highlights facilitators of product counterfeiting opportunity. Read More

Whether they know it or not, ocean transportation intermediaries (OTIs) play a crucial role in the distribution of counterfeit goods across the globe. When these companies provide their services to product counterfeiters, they contribute to the proliferation of criminal schemes, and may expose themselves to criminal and civil liability. Read More

This brief summarizes research on the characteristics of legitimate and counterfeit websites for a luxury apparel maker and a brand-name audio electronics manufacturer. Counterfeit websites had some distinguishing characteristics likely linked to their transient nature, but also show some effort to “look” like an authorized website. Read More

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 counterfeiters can easily apply their illicit trade around the globe with relative anonymity. Read More

Product counterfeiting, as an emerging problem, has seen limited scholarly attention. This article is an attempt to address one considerable gap in the product counterfeiting literature – the application of criminological theory. Read More

Product counterfeiting has only recently emerged as an area of research interest for criminal justice and criminology scholars. Read More