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 …

Cybercrime is not a solely technical subject but one that involves human offenders who are
susceptible to social scientific study. Yet, despite calls for cybercrime research to be …

Cryptomarkets, anonymous online markets where illicit drugs are exchanged, have operated
since 2011, yet there is a dearth of knowledge on why people use these platforms to sell …

Cryptomarkets—online markets for illegal goods—have revolutionized the illegal drug trade,
constituting about 10% of all drug trades and attracting users to a greater variety and more …

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 …

The current study employs a quasi-experimental design to test the efficacy of situational
crime prevention (SCP) in understanding risk avoidance behavior in a darknet environment …

Background The pricing of illicit drugs is typically approached within the risks and prices
framework. Recent sociological and economic studies of prices in online drug markets have …

Whenever we navigate the Web, we leave a trace through our IP address, which can in turn
be used to establish our identity–for instance, by cross-checking it with a user's Internet …

This article undertakes a global review of women's involvement in cultivation, processing,
transporting and selling drugs. It is underpinned by twin theoretical concerns. First, we recap …

Background An ethnographic analysis of drug-centred cryptomarket community and
exchange, this article explores the embedded values around drug distribution and …