RT Book
T1 Digital transformations of illicit drug markets: reconfiguration and continuity
T2 Emerald studies in digital crime, technology and social harms
A2 Tzanetakis, Meropi
A2 South, Nigel 1954-
LA English
PP Bingley, U.K.
PB Emerald Publishing Limited
YR 2023
ED First edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1860464475
AB 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 traces of buyers and sellers, posing new challenges to drug control policies and public health alike. Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity considers how the digital revolution has changed the selling and buying of illicit substances through increased convenience and anonymisation. Providing a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective, chapters show how the digital transformation of illicit drug markets combines a reconfiguration of how sellers and buyers interact in new markets. Emphasising that illicit digital markets are embedded in societal structures and power relations in general, contributors also recognise the importance of critical perspectives on inequalities between the Global North and South as well as issues of gender. Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity challenges the field of criminology to recognise the limits of its traditional knowledge and move beyond the preoccupations that restrict crime to certain fixed spaces in order to develop new explanations.
NO Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
CN 363.4502854678
SN 9781800438682
K1 Drug traffic : Technological innovations
K1 Black Market
K1 Computer crimes
K1 Electronic Commerce
K1 Social Science ; Criminology
K1 Drugs trade, drug trafficking
DO 10.1108/9781800438668