{"product_id":"digital-transformations-of-illicit-drug-markets-reconfiguration-and-continuity-paperback","title":"Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeropi Tzanetakis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNigel South\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransnational 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. \u003cem\u003eDigital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity\u003c\/em\u003e considers how the digital revolution has changed the selling and buying of illicit substances through increased convenience and anonymisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProviding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeropi Tzanetakis\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNigel South\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42155348885639,"sku":"9781800438699","price":48.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5b75b19e52583c5c067f8a9a0a3e97e4.webp?v=1733235278","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/digital-transformations-of-illicit-drug-markets-reconfiguration-and-continuity-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}