In Counterfeit Crime, economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things politicians do to combat them make matters worse - for the public and the public good.

Clone artists and copycats: global pandemic or counterfeit crime? -- The underground economy: a ruse by any other name? -- The criminal entrepreneur: predator, parasite, or free-market pioneer? --On the track of the black greenback -- Ghosts of terror wars past and the roots of the military-industrial complex -- The geopolitics of theopolitics and the rise of black-collar crime -- Middle East meets Midwest? Theopolitics, crime, and terror in the USA -- Brand name terrorism, la Crise d'Octobre, and lessons for a post-9/11 world -- Criminal profits, terror dollars and yet more nonsense.