Overview
- Analyzes the phenomenon of illegal trade of medicines through social media through a criminological and sociological lens
- Evaluates the impact of situational crime prevention strategies to counter the trafficking of prescription medicines via social media
- Incorporates an innovative evaluation research design to support studies assessing the impact of measures and strategies implemented by social media platforms
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book evaluates the impact of situational crime prevention measures implemented by social media platforms to identifying, blocking, and removing content linked to illegal traded medicines. It discusses the extent of social media usage in trafficking of medicines; the ease of access; visibility of the content; language of posts; products most traded; and types of posts. Research results support the hypothesis of the limited impact of these measures, due not to a lack of effectiveness but to asymmetrical implementation.
This volume will be of interest to researchers, law enforcement, policy makers, social media groups, public health practitioners.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gabriele Baratto is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento. He research deals with the correlations between crime and the internet (particularly social media), organized crime, urban security, hate speech, counterfeiting and criminal markets, trafficking in human beings, smuggling in migrants and asylum seekers. He is a member of the eCrime research group and the Institute of Safety and Security Studies of the University of Trento.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Illegal Trade of Medicines on Social Media
Book Subtitle: Evaluating Situational Crime Prevention Measures
Authors: Gabriele Baratto
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57582-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57581-6Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57582-3Published: 17 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-8533
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8541
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 115
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organized Crime, Crime Control and Security, Cybercrime