scholarly journals Gendering research on online illegal drug markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 457-466
Author(s):  
Jennifer Fleetwood ◽  
Judith Aldridge ◽  
Caroline Chatwin
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Drug Markets

On the Resilience of Illegal Drug Markets

Global Crime ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bouchard
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Drug Markets

Turf and Illegal Drug Market Competition between Gangs

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1507-1548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto J. Naranjo
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Drug Market ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Drug Markets ◽  
Stage Game ◽  
Enforcement Policies

Abstract Street-level illegal drug markets generate much of the violence and intimidation that local communities face nowadays. These markets are mainly driven by territorial gangs who finance their activities through the sale of drugs. Understanding how the existence of both turf and drug market competition may have unintended consequences of law enforcement policies on violence is the main contribution of the paper. We propose a two-stage game-theoretical model where two profit maximizing gangs compete in prices and invest in guns. We find that policies such as traditional or community policing can have different and unexpected effects on the level of violence.

Is small beautiful? The link between risks and size in illegal drug markets

Global Crime ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bouchard ◽  
Frédéric Ouellet
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Drug Markets

Where Size Matters: Agglomeration Economies of Illegal Drug Markets in Philadelphia

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis A. Taniguchi ◽  
George F. Rengert ◽  
Eric S. McCord
Keyword(s):  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Drug Markets

scholarly journals Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland

2021 ◽  
pp. 147737082199732
Author(s):  
Ben Matthews ◽  
Ben Collier ◽  
Susan McVie ◽  
Chris Dibben
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
National Level ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Drug Markets ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Bayesian Hierarchical ◽  
Postal Services

An increase in the use of postal services to deliver drugs purchased online raises concerns about widening access to drugs markets, especially in remote and rural areas that were previously protected by geographical boundaries. Yet little is known about the geographical patterning of drugs delivered through the post. Using a novel law enforcement dataset containing details of illegal drug packages intercepted by UK Border Force en route to Scotland, we examine the geographical destination of drugs purchased online and explore the area-based characteristics associated with higher rates of delivery. This article provides previously unavailable insights into the spatial patterning of digital drugs markets at sub-national level. We use descriptive statistics, Bayesian hierarchical regression models, and spatial autocorrelation to describe the relationship between area-based characteristics and expected rate of illegal drug consignments identified across Scotland. The majority of intercepted drug packages were destined for urban centres, but there was a higher than expected delivery rate to some of Scotland’s remote and rural locations. Increased rates of drug delivery within Scottish neighbourhoods was independently associated with higher levels of crime and deprivation, with Internet connectivity and with access to services, but not with higher rates of drug-related hospitalization. Analysis of spatial clustering showed that drug delivery to the most remote and rural locations was still associated with good access to services because the packages were typically delivered to addresses in larger settlements within remote locations. Overall, postal drugs delivery reflects both relatively high use in more urban, more deprived areas but also seems to open up more remote regions to drug markets, albeit with usage concentrated in larger settlements within otherwise remote areas.

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