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Despite the importance of the consumer in counterfeiting policy, there has been a lack of attention within criminology about the demand for counterfeit goods. A tendency to explain counterfeit consumption through deviance or ‘othering’; reinforces stereotypical assumptions about consumers and overplays the importance of superficial factors in consumption. This book seeks to develop a better understanding of why counterfeit markets exist when we know that many consumers knowingly buy counterfeit products and argues there is a need to consider demand for illicit goods within the context of consumer capitalism. Through focusing on the end market consumption of counterfeit fashion; a grey area in terms of criminality, and a topic on the border of more traditional criminological concern this book is concerned with the embedded nature of harm in consumer capitalism.
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Large, J. (2019). The Consumption of Counterfeit Fashion. In: The Consumption of Counterfeit Fashion. Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01331-8_5
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