New psychoactive substances: challenges for drug surveillance, control, and public health responses

A Peacock, R Bruno, N Gisev, L Degenhardt, W Hall… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
The rapid emergence since the mid-2000s of a large and diverse range of substances
originally designed as legal alternatives to more established illicit drugs (pragmatically …

Sex, drugs, and bitcoin: How much illegal activity is financed through cryptocurrencies?

S Foley, JR Karlsen, TJ Putniņš - The Review of Financial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Cryptocurrencies are among the largest unregulated markets in the world. We find that
approximately one-quarter of bitcoin users are involved in illegal activity. We estimate that …

Everything you always wanted to know about drug cryptomarkets*(* but were afraid to ask)

MJ Barratt, J Aldridge - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
For some drug policy scholars, including us, the online marketplace Silk Road and its
successors are inherently fascinating. When we first discovered Silk Road in 2011, on …

Socioeconomic and psychosocial determinants of substance misuse–a national perspective

L Stephenson, C Van Den Heuvel… - Forensic Science, Medicine …, 2023 - Springer
Accurate estimates of population drug use and an understanding of the factors that influence
substance choice are essential for the development of appropriate and targeted prevention …

[BOOK][B] Weaving the dark web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P

RW Gehl - 2018 - books.google.com
An exploration of the Dark Web—websites accessible only with special routing software—
that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P. The term …

Will growth in cryptomarket drug buying increase the harms of illicit drugs?

J Aldridge, A Stevens, MJ Barratt - Addiction, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aim Cryptomarkets—on‐line, anonymous market‐places for illicit goods
and services that specialize mainly in drugs—account for a small but rapidly growing share …

Policing the cybercrime script of darknet drug markets: Methods of effective law enforcement intervention

E Jardine - American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2021 - Springer
Darknet drug market participants must complete a distinct cybercrime script if they are to
successfully procure illicit substances online. This paper details the four generic stages (ie …

Comparing cryptomarkets for drugs. A characterisation of sellers and buyers over time

M Tzanetakis - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Cryptomarkets operating on the darknet are a recent phenomenon that has
gained importance only over the last couple of years (Barratt, 2012). However, they now …

A geographical analysis of trafficking on a popular darknet market

J Broséus, D Rhumorbarbe, M Morelato… - Forensic science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cryptomarkets are online marketplaces, located on the darknet, that facilitate the trading of a
variety of illegal goods, mostly drugs. While the literature essentially focus on drugs, various …

Going local on a global platform: A critical analysis of the transformative potential of cryptomarkets for organized illicit drug crime

J Demant, R Munksgaard… - International …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: There is broad agreement in the literature on the transformative potential of drug
cryptomarkets that allow sourcing on a global market and consequently the circumvention of …