Barratt, M. J., & Aldridge, J. (2016). Everything you always wanted to know about drug cryptomarkets* (*but were afraid to ask). International Journal of Drug Policy. 2016:1. This article explains the drug market on the dark web.
Barratt, M., Aldridge, J., & Maddox, A. (2018). Dark web. In B. Warf (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the internet (pp. 185-188). SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781473960367.n59 This encyclopedia index focuses on the dark web.
Belshaw, S. H. (2019). Investigating the new criminal neighborhood: The need for dark web education for law enforcement personnel. International Journal of Information Security & Cybercrime, 8(2), 27–38. This author of this article explains the need for dark web training in the typical law enforcement curriculum as the dark web is now the new “criminal neighborhood” for activity.
Kumar, A., & Rosenbach, E. (2019, September). The truth about the dark web: Intended to protect dissidents, it has also cloaked illegal activity. Finance & Development, 56(3), 22+. This short article reveals the reason for the dark web and what it is being used for today.
Leukfeldt, E. R., Kleemans, E. R., Kruisbergen, E. W., & Roks, R. A. (2019). Criminal networks in a digitised world: On the nexus of borderless opportunities and local embeddedness. Trends in Organized Crime, 22(3), 324–345. https://doi-org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.1007/s12117-019-09366-7 The authors of this article explain the use of the Internet by organized crime groups, including a mixture of old school criminals and newly skilled criminal elements.
Samtani, S., Y. Chai, & H. Chen. (2022). Linking Exploits from the dark web to known vulnerabilities for proactive cyber threat intelligence: an attention-based deep structured semantic model. MIS Quarterly, 46(2), 911–946. This study explored the use of a deep structured semantic model (EVA-DSSM) to link exploits from the Dark Web to vulnerabilities.
