Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity

The digital revolution has transformed transnational illicit markets, which use encryption technologies, smartphones, social media applications, and cryptocurrencies to protect the digital traces of buyers and sellers, posing new challenges to drug control policies and public health. This book explores how the digital transformation of illicit drug markets has reconfigured how sellers and buyers interact, combining a reconfiguration of how sellers and buyers interact in new markets with critical perspectives on inequalities between the Global North and South and issues of gender. It challenges the field of criminology to recognize the limits of its traditional knowledge and move beyond the preoccupations that restrict crime to certain fixed spaces to develop new explanations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 16 August 2023
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

The digital revolution has brought about significant transformations in transnational illicit markets, leveraging encryption technologies, smartphones, social media applications, and cryptocurrencies to protect the digital traces of buyers and sellers, presenting both new challenges and opportunities for drug control policies and public health.

In Transnational Illicit Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity, the ebook edition is freely available online, offering a comprehensive exploration of these evolving markets. The book delves into how the digital revolution has facilitated increased convenience and anonymity in the selling and buying of illicit substances, reshaping the landscape of illegal drug trade.

Providing a multidisciplinary perspective, the chapters in this book shed light on how the digital transformation of illicit drug markets combines a reconfiguration of the interactions between sellers and buyers in new markets. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing that illicit digital markets are deeply intertwined with societal structures and power relations, and contributors also highlight the need to address inequalities between the Global North and South and issues of gender in this context.

Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity challenges the field of criminology to expand its knowledge boundaries and move beyond the traditional confines of crime to develop new explanations for the complexities of illicit drug markets. By examining the intersection of technology, society, and crime, this book offers valuable insights into the evolving nature of transnational illicit markets and the challenges and opportunities they present.

Weight: 316g
Dimension: 151 x 232 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800438699