The sports doping market [electronic resource] : understanding supply and demand, and the challenges of their control / Letizia Paoli, Alessandro Donati.
2013
RC1230
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Title
The sports doping market [electronic resource] : understanding supply and demand, and the challenges of their control / Letizia Paoli, Alessandro Donati.
Author
Paoli, Letizia, author.
ISBN
9781461482413 electronic book
1461482410 electronic book
9781461482406
1461482410 electronic book
9781461482406
Published
New York : Springer, [2013?]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 274 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-4614-8241-3 doi
Call Number
RC1230
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.29
Summary
This book examines sports doping from production and distribution to use, detection, and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from the diversion of regular drugs from legal market chains, the expanding scale of counterfeiting and the resulting health risks, to the role of organized crime in sports doping, and the protection long provided by sports ruling bodies and federations to elite athletes and their suppliers.This innovative book examines the supply-side of the sports doping market, and is the first study of its kind to estimate the size and revenues of a national market for doping products; including the suppliers profits. The Sports Doping Market also discusses in depth the challenges of the international antidoping regime and considers for the first time how anti-doping criminal provisions and their enforcement can contribute to improve the fight against doping within and outside the sports world. The book s extensive research: Estimates the nation-wide demand for performance-enhancing products Traces the route from legal substances to illegal uses. Identifies classes of suppliers and their methods of operation. Tracks typical distribution chains from suppliers to users. Examines the economics of the market: prices, profits, revenue. Assesses the state of anti-doping law enforcement efforts. Starting with an unprecedented case study in Italy, the intense scrutiny from one pivotal country yields a potential template for research and policy on a world scale. The Sports Doping Market makes solid contributions to the work of researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with an interest in corruption, drug trafficking, and criminal networks; researchers in sports science and public health; and policymakers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 16, 2013).
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Donati, Alessandro, author.
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Table of Contents
Overview: What is Known about Doping and What Can This Study Add to It
Doping Products and Their Demand
The (Illegal) Suppliers of Doping Products
Distribution Chains and Market Relationships
The Role of Sports Body and Organized Crime
Revenues and Profits
Anti-Doping Law Enforcement: Legislation, Actors, Outcomes, and the Challenges Ahead
Synthesis of Findings and Lessons for Policy-Making.
Doping Products and Their Demand
The (Illegal) Suppliers of Doping Products
Distribution Chains and Market Relationships
The Role of Sports Body and Organized Crime
Revenues and Profits
Anti-Doping Law Enforcement: Legislation, Actors, Outcomes, and the Challenges Ahead
Synthesis of Findings and Lessons for Policy-Making.