Ebook: The Sports Doping Market: Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control

​​This book examines sports doping from production and distribution, 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 athletes most at risk to the role of organized crime in sports doping, and whether sports governing bodies are enabling the trade. Challenges for law enforcement and legislation, and efforts to control PED use in the worldwide sports community and among aspiring athletes, are also discussed in depth. The book's extensive research:• Estimates the 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 systems 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. Doping and Sport 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.

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.

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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
What Is Known About Doping and What Can This Study Add to It?....Pages 1-20
Doping Products and Their Demand....Pages 21-57
The (Illegal) Suppliers of Doping Products....Pages 59-84
Distribution Chains and Market Relationships....Pages 85-106
The Role of Sports Bodies and Organized Crime....Pages 107-130
Revenues and Profits....Pages 131-150
Anti-doping Law Enforcement: Legislation, Actors, Outcomes, and the Challenges Ahead....Pages 151-194
Synthesis of Findings and Lessons for Policy-Making....Pages 195-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-275