This chapter discusses the opportunity to differentiate providers of harmful non-science-based health practices into different criminological types by drawing on a subset of case studies identified in the United Kingdom through media, judicial documents, and grey literature. We propose a multi-dimensional typology addressing motivations, individual characteristics, behavioural patterns, criminal trajectories, and organisational structures. The typology presented furthers our understanding of harmful health practitioners and could serve as a framework to filter the different experiences of similar dangerous practices in other countries, thus facilitating comparative research.
Towards a better criminological understanding of CAM-adjacent health frauds: an offender typology / Lavorgna A; Horsburgh H. - STAMPA. - (2019), pp. 1-17.
Towards a better criminological understanding of CAM-adjacent health frauds: an offender typology
Lavorgna A;
2019
Abstract
This chapter discusses the opportunity to differentiate providers of harmful non-science-based health practices into different criminological types by drawing on a subset of case studies identified in the United Kingdom through media, judicial documents, and grey literature. We propose a multi-dimensional typology addressing motivations, individual characteristics, behavioural patterns, criminal trajectories, and organisational structures. The typology presented furthers our understanding of harmful health practitioners and could serve as a framework to filter the different experiences of similar dangerous practices in other countries, thus facilitating comparative research.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.