Digital transformations of illicit drug markets : reconfiguration and continuity
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Transnational illicit markets have been transformed by the digital revolution. They take advantage of encryption technologies, smartphones, social media applications and cryptocurrencies that protect the digital trac...
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| Main Authors | , |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
[2023]
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| Series | Emerald studies in digital crime, technology and social harms.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781800438682 |
| DOI | 10.1108/9781800438668 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The digital transformations of illicit drug markets as a process of reconfiguration and continuity / Meropi Tzanetakis and Nigel South
- Part I: Embeddedness of digital drug markets
- Chapter 2. Social media applications and 'surface web' mediated supply of illicit drugs: Emergent and established market risks and contradictions / Ross Coomber, Andrew Childs, Leah Moyle, and Monica Barratt
- Chapter 3. Trust in cryptomarkets for illicit drugs / Kim Moeller
- Chapter 4. Drugs and the dark web: The Americanisation of policing and online criminal law from an australian perspective / Ian J. Warren and Emma Ryan
- Part II: Understanding drug demand online
- Chapter 5. 'Waiting for the delivery man': Temporalities of addiction, withdrawal, and the pleasures of drug time in a darknet cryptomarket / Angus Bancroft
- Chapter 6. When home delivery trumps a shady warehouse deal. An exploratory study of belgian cryptomarket buyers' profile and their motives to buy online / Charlotte Colman
- Part III: Power relations
- Chapter 7. Cultural politics, reciprocal relations, and operational agility in online drug markets / Nicolae Craciunescu and Nigel South
- Chapter 8. Gender representations in online modafinil markets / Jennifer Fleetwood and Caroline Chatwin
- Chapter 9. Cryptomarkets and drug market gentrification / James Martin
- Chapter 10. The dark side of cryptomarkets: Towards a new dialectic of self-exploitation within platform capitalism / Meropi Tzanetakis and Stefan A. Marx.