Illegal Trade of Medicines on Social Media

Gabriele Baratto is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento. He research deals with the correlations between crime and the internet (particularly social media), organized crime, urban security, hate speech, counterfeiting and criminal markets, trafficking in human beings, smuggling in migrants and asylum seekers.  He is a member of the eCrime research group and the Institute of Safety and Security Studies of the University of Trento.

• Introduction.- The illegal online trade of medicines: the roles of the internet and social media websites.- Situational crime prevention measures in the illegal online trade of medicines.- Evaluation strategy.- Evaluation of social media’s SCP measures.- Conclusion.