Illicit markets as ontological and epistemological technologies
There’s been much referencing to techno-social hybrids and as with anything else the term can lose its specificity as it…
Drug dealing as multi-level marketing scheme
‘I just got out of prison and asked my sister how much it would cost to start a business. She…
They not we: aesthetics of drug harm
‘Laugh at [the ads] because when you’re in active meth addiction you don’t really care what the outside world is…
A counterfeit currency vendor on the darknet
The aim of this article will be a crime script analysis of a counterfeit currency vendor and their community. Crime…
Rewriting the normal/pathological self
Typically ‘performance and image enhancement’ drugs refers to a set of drugs taken to improve physical performance or appearance, or…
Opacity as a public good
Something I’ve been grappling with is the right to opacity and how that can be supported. The reason I think…
August reading list
Fiction: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, borrowed electronically through Libby/Edinburgh City Libraries. Academic themes: Pre crime: Arrigo, Bruce, and…
Individuated and embedded users in the heroin moral economy
Detailed ethnographic work (Bourgois 1998, Wakeman, 2015) has shown the rich, complex set of reciprocal obligations and responsibilities by which…
Questions to orient yourself to ontology
The purpose of the exercise is to help you work out your ontological positioning. The reason I have done it…
Discover lives as lived: create puzzlement and elaborate your bafflement
The researcher stance should be one of polite but informed puzzlement and a willingness to learn from the world. A…
