Development of a product-counterfeiting incident cluster tool

Crime Science

Table 1 Criminal types and attributes that apply to product-counterfeiting incidents¹((Spink et al.[2010]) adapted from (Hagan[2010]))

Types of criminals	Definition
Recreational	Action for entertainment or amusement
Occasional	Infrequent, opportunistic
Occupational	Incidents at their place of employment either as an individual act or in collaboration with the company
Professional	Crime fully finances their lifestyle

¹Note: Although previously included by the authors in previous research and publications, the ‘Ideological’ type was removed since the motivation is not economic gain. The ideological type included anarchists, terrorists, disgruntled employees, and others who are trying to physically, economically, or emotionally harm a person or entity.

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