Conflict Management in Illicit Drug Cryptomarkets
Conflict Management in Illicit Drug Cryptomarkets
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DOI：
10.1177/1057567717709498
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Aldridge, Judith
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作者：
Morselli, Carlo;Decary-Hetu, David;Aldridge, Judith
非法毒品市场被描述为无国家系统。此外，人们普遍认为，毒贩倾向于使用暴力来解决交易活动中产生的纠纷。虽然一些研究已经破坏了这种流行的看法，但围绕通过在线渠道（毒品加密市场）分销非法毒品的新趋势已经将交易环境从物理领域转移到虚拟领域，从而进一步降低了暴力解决结果的可能性。本文通过对供应商和买家之间的讨论论坛进行编码来研究加密市场中的冲突管理策略。正如预期的那样，没有暴力。战略更可能反映出在非法市场环境内外的冲突管理研究中公认的替代方案：容忍、回避、排斥、第三方干预、谈判和威胁。这些决议产生的总体背景显然不受正式规定的约束，但我们的分析表明，有大量非正式的社会控制机制一直在发挥作用，这些机制构成了牢固存在的自我监管和社区进程的基础。
Illegal drug markets have been described as stateless systems. Drug dealers, moreover, are commonly considered to have a predilection toward the use of violence to resolve disputes arising from dealing activities. While some studies have undermined this popular perception, new trends surrounding the distribution of illegal drugs via online channels (drug cryptomarkets) have shifted the transactional setting from the physical to virtual realm, thus decreasing the likelihood of violent resolution outcomes even further. This article examines conflict management strategies within cryptomarkets by coding discussion forums between vendors and buyers. Violence, as expected, is absent. Strategies more likely reflect alternatives that have been recognized in conflict management research within and beyond illegal market settings: tolerance, avoidance, ostracism, third-party intervention, negotiation, and threats. The overall setting from which such resolutions emerge is clearly not subject to formal regulations, but our analyses illustrate the multitude of informal social control mechanisms that are consistently at play and which underlie the self-regulatory and communal processes that are firmly in place.