Hot Products in Product Counterfeiting. Extending the use of CRAVED

• In Event: Crime and Place: Routine Activities Theory and the Prevention of Product Counterfeiting

Abstract

Product counterfeiting is an emerging transnational crime that has considerable economic and public health consequences (OECD, 2008; Albanese, 2011). Understanding which products are more likely to be targeted by counterfeiters would facilitate the advancement of preventive efforts.. Using Clarke’s (1999) CRAVED model as a starting point, and building on the elements of routine activities theory (Cohen and Felson, 1979) this paper focuses on those products most likely to be targeted by product counterfeiters, and proposes a framework that could be used to explain this increased risk. The paper concludes by sketching future avenues for research that stem from the identification of characteristics that make products more prone to become targets of product counterfeiting.

Authors

• Zoltan Levente Fejes, Michigan State University

• Roy Fenoff, Michigan State University

• Meghan Elizabeth Hollis, Michigan State University

• Jeremy M. Wilson, Michigan State University