Counterfeit DVD street sellers

Abstract

Capturing ‘serious career criminals’ is pivotal within intellectual property crime enforcement (SOCA, 2010a: 1; SOCA, 2010b). There is also acknowledgement that organized criminals often trap undocumented migrants ‘into a cycle of exploitation’ to perform street level offences (SOCA, 2010c: 1; Chin, 2000). Fifteen magistrates’ court pre-sentence reports were analysed in order to identify whether these classifications adequately describe counterfeit DVD street sellers. The key findings suggest that a humanistic perspective is needed to highlight that street sellers encounter poor material circumstances (Grover, 2005).