Overview
- Examines the purchasing of medicines online from the perspective of the consumer
- Provides a critical overview of the UK healthcare regulatory system in particular
- Speaks to academics in criminology, sociology, medical sociology, digital sociology, and computer science, as well as to health practitioners, policy makers and law enforcement agencies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity (PSCYBER)
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This is a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary phenomenon of online medicine purchasing. In this research, Sugiura provides a criminological understanding of the sale of online medicines as well as the traditional illegal markets. Crucially, the practice is investigated from the perspective of web users, moving beyond the headlines and warning campaigns to contextualise the provision of medicines online, to describe this practice and subjective accounts of purchasing medicines from the Web. Drawing together established deviance theories, Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online considers the construction of online medicine purchasing, the justifications presented to challenge how it is labelled, and how the behaviour is managed to show how the framing of risks and deviance is challenged online.
Offering a much-needed a critical overview of the UK healthcare regulatory system, Sugiura also analyses literature, data and policy documents originating from different countries highlighting that the geographical locations of participants in web forums, online surveys and non-face-to-face interviews cannot always be verified. With broad implications for regulation and safety surrounding medicines online, this innovative and timely study contributes to current online healthcare debates and broadens our understanding of cybercrime. It will be of particular interest to scholars of cybercrime and those interested in the changing nature of deviance.
Offering a much-needed a critical overview of the UK healthcare regulatory system, Sugiura also analyses literature, data and policy documents originating from different countries highlighting that the geographical locations of participants in web forums, online surveys and non-face-to-face interviews cannot always be verified. With broad implications for regulation and safety surrounding medicines online, this innovative and timely study contributes to current online healthcare debates and broadens our understanding of cybercrime. It will be of particular interest to scholars of cybercrime and those interested in the changing nature of deviance.
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About the author
Lisa Sugiura is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Cybercrime at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online
Book Subtitle: Opportunities and Risks for Consumers
Authors: Lisa Sugiura
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74485-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74484-1Published: 23 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89278-8Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74485-8Published: 13 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2770
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2789
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 172
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cybercrime, Crime and Society, Criminal Behavior, Crime Prevention, Medical Sociology