ABSTRACT
Illegal markets may be defined as places within which goods and services are exchanged whose production, sale and consumption are forbidden or strictly regulated by the majority of national states and/or by international legislation. The exchange of such goods and services is regarded as an inherent threat to human dignity and the public welfare. Markets in hard drugs, in armaments being sold outside official agreements, in human beings reduced to economic or sexual slavery, in capital generated by crime, and in secret information are examples of this type of exchange.
