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 …

Illicit data markets have emerged on Telegram, a popular online instant messaging
application, bringing together thousands of users worldwide in an unregulated exchange of …

Transactions on the darknet are notoriously difficult to examine. Prior criminological
research has generally used web scraping and qualitative text analysis to examine illegal …

The opioid epidemic, impacted from the proliferation of fentanyl, has added impetus to the
need to detect fentanyl, sources of fentanyl, and places where fentanyl and drugs …

Scant research has investigated the illicit online ecosystem that enables the sale of stolen
data. Even fewer studies have examined the longitudinal trends of the markets on which …

Abstract Research Summary We present a comprehensive description of Hydra, the largest
darknet marketplace in the world until its shutdown in April 2022. We document the main …

Cryptomarkets are increasingly requiring users to purchase products with Monero (a 'privacy
coin') to further obfuscate the digital trail of money compared to conventional …

This study reconstructs the cooperation network among 134 organized crime groups (OCGs)
operating in an urban setting by leveraging a dataset of 5239 police crime reports (January …

Over the past few decades, the issue of stolen data has expanded from a nuisance caused
by few opportunistic individuals to a thriving, highly organised, and profitable economy. As …

Collective efficacy has long been a standard concept in macro-level theories of offending
and traditionally has been used to explain group behavior in neighborhoods and …