Received:
2018-10-14 | Accepted:
2019-02-18 | Published:
2019-06-30
Title
Organized crime in the production and distribution of falsified medicines in Poland: Outline of the problem
Abstract
Pharmaceutical crime has become a global phenomenon, an element of organized global crime, alongside drug and arms trafficking. Therefore, in order to combat this issue, there is a need of co-operation of a number of factors such as: the legal system, its proper use, cooperation of entities obliged to combat crime (not only national but also international), appropriate social campaign. This paper refers to the aforementioned issues. It presents examples of actions of the Polish police in the fight against pharmaceutical crime as a form of organized crime. The article has been prepared within the frames of realizing a research project called “Understand the Dimensions of Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks for Developing Effective and Efficient Security Solutions for First-line-practitioners and Professionals” (Project: TAKEDOWN, H2020-FCT-2015, No: 700688).
Keywords
pharmaceutical crime, organized crime, medicines
JEL classifications
K14
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/318
DOI
Pages
1762-1770
Funding
This research was supported by the project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research. Project called “Understand the Dimensions of Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks for Developing Effective and Efficient Security Solutions for First-line-practitioners and Professionals” (Project: TAKEDOWN, H2020-FCT-2015, No: 700688).
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
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Journal title
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
Volume
6
Number
4
Issue date
June 2019
Issue DOI
ISSN
ISSN 2345-0282 (online)
Publisher
VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
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