List of Tables and Figuresvii
About the Authorsix
Acknowledgementsxiii
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets as a Process of Reconfiguration and Continuity 
Meropi Tzanetakis and Nigel South1
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 Barratt15
Chapter 3: Trust in Cryptomarkets for Illicit Drugs 
Kim Moeller29
Chapter 4: Drugs and the Dark Web: The Americanisation of Policing and Online Criminal Law From an Australian Perspective 
Ian J. Warren and Emma Ryan45
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 Bancroft61
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 Colman73
Part III: Power Relations
Chapter 7: Cultural Politics, Reciprocal Relations, and Operational Agility in Online Drug Markets 
Nicolae Craciunescu and Nigel South95
Chapter 8: Gender Representations in Online Modafinil Markets 
Jennifer Fleetwood and Caroline Chatwin109
Chapter 9: Cryptomarkets and Drug Market Gentrification 
James Martin127
Chapter 10: The Dark Side of Cryptomarkets: Towards a New Dialectic of Self-Exploitation Within Platform Capitalism 
Meropi Tzanetakis and Stefan A. Marx141
References155
Index175

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