Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets

Meropi Tzanetakis is Lecturer in Digital Criminology at the University of Manchester, UK, and Senior Research Fellow with the Governance of Digital Practices Research Platform at the University of Vienna, Austria.Nigel South is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. In 2022 he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the British Society of Criminology and in 2013 a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology.

• 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 relationsChapter 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