ABSTRACT
An illegal market is a place or principle within which there is an exchange of goods and services, the production, selling and consumption of which are forbidden or strictly regulated by the majority of states and/or by international law. The very existence of illegal markets is considered a threat to human dignity and the public good. Markets in hard drugs, in armaments sold outside official agreements, in human beings reduced to economic or sexual slavery, in capital of criminal origin are typical of this category of exchanges.
