Abstract: The objective of this paper is to evaluate the offering of firearms online on underground websites. The main website to be evaluated is Evolution which also acts as a market for other illegal items and substances. Two more dark websites Middle-Earth and Nucleus were also added to provide a better snapshot of the underground firearm […] Lire la suite

Jasmin, G. (2014). Dark-net websites: An exploratory analysis of the availability of firearms. Note de recherche no. 23. Abstract: The objective of this paper is to evaluate the offering of firearms online on underground websites. The main website to be evaluated is Evolution which also acts as a market for other illegal items and substances. Two […] Lire la suite

Résumé The concept of network is fast becoming ubiquitous. Its broad appeal lies in its ability to account for the present multiplicity of institutional, organizational, and social morphologies. Networks promise to absorb, recombine, and merge the two dominant and competing forms of social organization (the bureaucratic hierarchy and the market) into a third one that […] Lire la suite