Andrew Child
Biographic Data
| ID | 3982038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Child |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Child |
| SIGNATURE | CHILD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1956-3212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When the Markets Are Inaccessible
Dark web drug market participants (both buyers and vendors) face frequent disruptions that affect their access to marketplaces. While these disruptions vary in their duration and the actors involved, existing research has largely concentrated on closures by law enforcement. Recognising the broader range of disruptions experienced by participants is essential for understanding how dark web markets adapt and evolve. This paper presents a typology o…
Metaverse policing
The metaverse is an immersive, interoperable, and decentralized 3D online environment that contributes to the emergence of various metacrimes, presenting unique challenges for metaverse policing. Despite the boom of the metaverse, the existing scholarship on metaverse policing has been limited, disconnected, and disorganized. This study systematically reviews 32 selected studies applying PRISMA 2020 guidelines to establish a comprehensive underst…
‘I guess that’s the price of decentralisation… ’
There is a distinct lack of criminological research examining victimisation experiences in emerging cryptocurrency frauds. At the same time, online cryptocurrency communities have become a key part of the social milieu of the cryptocurrency ecosystem where scams are commonplace. Using Reddit forum data from the subreddit r/ CryptoCurrency, this exploratory qualitative study investigates how users in an online cryptocurrency community share knowle…
The platformisation of illicit drug markets
Digital technologies go beyond merely facilitating illicit drug exchanges; they actively reconfigure and reorganise interactions in illicit drug markets. In this article we consider the ongoing evolution of illicit drug markets against the backdrop of platform capitalism in order to conceptualise the platformisation of illicit drug markets. The platformisation of illicit drug markets illustrates how drug markets are becoming contingent on the tec…
Investigating Google’s Search Engine by Rosie Graham
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform
This paper provides the first exploration of the online distribution of fake Australian COVID-19 vaccine certificates. Drawing on a collection of 2589 posts between five distributors and their community members on the alt-tech platform Gab , this study gathers key insights into the mechanics of illicit vaccine certificate distribution. The qualitative findings in this research demonstrate the various motivations and binding ideologies that underp…
How cryptomarket communities navigate marketplace structures, risk perceptions and ideologies amid evolving cryptocurrency practices
Cryptomarkets are increasingly requiring users to purchase products with Monero (a ‘privacy coin’) to further obfuscate the digital trail of money compared to conventional cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin). This is the first study to explore how cryptomarket communities are used to facilitate norms and behaviours to expedite these emerging cryptocurrency practices. Through a qualitative analysis of Monero threads in a Reddit cryptomarket community …
Beyond the dark web
Common depictions of buying and selling illicit drugs online centre on how drug market actors engage in dark web drug cryptomarkets, but the supply of illicit drugs also takes place in ‘plain site’ on the surface web. Drawing on netnographic observations and qualitative interviews with hard-to-reach buyers and vendors (n = 20), this paper explores LeafedOut, a specific, popular surface web platform, that provides a conduit for local cannabis exch…
Do Online Illicit Drug Market Exchanges Afford Rationality
Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted assumptions inadequate for understanding concrete illicit drug market activity. Considerably less, however, is known about key aspects of rationality in exchanges within online drug markets. Recognizing the inadequacies of an underlying homo economicus , we instead c…
A commentary on the potential impact of online communities and crime-related media on the criminal justice system
Criminological research in the media-crime nexus must critically engage with online communities focussed on influencing criminal justice outcomes. This commentary highlights the increasing diversification of such online communities and draws on the only Australian example of a media-led online wrongful conviction campaign – the Exposed Facebook group – to explore new developments in this space. This Australian example is so new that it has not ye…
Drugsforsale
Hyper or hypo-masculine? Re-conceptualizing ‘hyper-masculinity’ through Seattle’s gay, leather community
This article offers a critique of the concept of hyper-masculinity and a more nuanced, place contingent, critical way to think about masculinity. I use the concept of hyper-masculinity to highlight a conceptual problem between essentialist and de-essentialized notions of gender. Constructionist notions of masculinity (and gender) do not escape the essentialist problem; however, by critiquing and offering a placed conceptualization of hyper-mascul…
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or What You Will
The platformisation of illicit drug markets
Digital technologies go beyond merely facilitating illicit drug exchanges; they actively reconfigure and reorganise interactions in illicit drug markets. In this article we consider the ongoing evolution of illicit drug markets against the backdrop of platform capitalism in order to conceptualise the platformisation of illicit drug markets. The platformisation of illicit drug markets illustrates how drug markets are becoming contingent on the tec…
Hyper or hypo-masculine? Re-conceptualizing ‘hyper-masculinity’ through Seattle’s gay, leather community
This article offers a critique of the concept of hyper-masculinity and a more nuanced, place contingent, critical way to think about masculinity. I use the concept of hyper-masculinity to highlight a conceptual problem between essentialist and de-essentialized notions of gender. Constructionist notions of masculinity (and gender) do not escape the essentialist problem; however, by critiquing and offering a placed conceptualization of hyper-mascul…
Do Online Illicit Drug Market Exchanges Afford Rationality
Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted assumptions inadequate for understanding concrete illicit drug market activity. Considerably less, however, is known about key aspects of rationality in exchanges within online drug markets. Recognizing the inadequacies of an underlying homo economicus , we instead c…
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or What You Will
Hyper or hypo-masculine? Re-conceptualizing ‘hyper-masculinity’ through Seattle’s gay, leather community
This article offers a critique of the concept of hyper-masculinity and a more nuanced, place contingent, critical way to think about masculinity. I use the concept of hyper-masculinity to highlight a conceptual problem between essentialist and de-essentialized notions of gender. Constructionist notions of masculinity (and gender) do not escape the essentialist problem; however, by critiquing and offering a placed conceptualization of hyper-mascul…
A commentary on the potential impact of online communities and crime-related media on the criminal justice system
Criminological research in the media-crime nexus must critically engage with online communities focussed on influencing criminal justice outcomes. This commentary highlights the increasing diversification of such online communities and draws on the only Australian example of a media-led online wrongful conviction campaign – the Exposed Facebook group – to explore new developments in this space. This Australian example is so new that it has not ye…
Drugsforsale
Do Online Illicit Drug Market Exchanges Afford Rationality
Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted assumptions inadequate for understanding concrete illicit drug market activity. Considerably less, however, is known about key aspects of rationality in exchanges within online drug markets. Recognizing the inadequacies of an underlying homo economicus , we instead c…
Beyond the dark web
Common depictions of buying and selling illicit drugs online centre on how drug market actors engage in dark web drug cryptomarkets, but the supply of illicit drugs also takes place in ‘plain site’ on the surface web. Drawing on netnographic observations and qualitative interviews with hard-to-reach buyers and vendors (n = 20), this paper explores LeafedOut, a specific, popular surface web platform, that provides a conduit for local cannabis exch…
Investigating Google’s Search Engine by Rosie Graham
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform
This paper provides the first exploration of the online distribution of fake Australian COVID-19 vaccine certificates. Drawing on a collection of 2589 posts between five distributors and their community members on the alt-tech platform Gab , this study gathers key insights into the mechanics of illicit vaccine certificate distribution. The qualitative findings in this research demonstrate the various motivations and binding ideologies that underp…
How cryptomarket communities navigate marketplace structures, risk perceptions and ideologies amid evolving cryptocurrency practices
Cryptomarkets are increasingly requiring users to purchase products with Monero (a ‘privacy coin’) to further obfuscate the digital trail of money compared to conventional cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin). This is the first study to explore how cryptomarket communities are used to facilitate norms and behaviours to expedite these emerging cryptocurrency practices. Through a qualitative analysis of Monero threads in a Reddit cryptomarket community …
‘I guess that’s the price of decentralisation… ’
There is a distinct lack of criminological research examining victimisation experiences in emerging cryptocurrency frauds. At the same time, online cryptocurrency communities have become a key part of the social milieu of the cryptocurrency ecosystem where scams are commonplace. Using Reddit forum data from the subreddit r/ CryptoCurrency, this exploratory qualitative study investigates how users in an online cryptocurrency community share knowle…
The platformisation of illicit drug markets
Digital technologies go beyond merely facilitating illicit drug exchanges; they actively reconfigure and reorganise interactions in illicit drug markets. In this article we consider the ongoing evolution of illicit drug markets against the backdrop of platform capitalism in order to conceptualise the platformisation of illicit drug markets. The platformisation of illicit drug markets illustrates how drug markets are becoming contingent on the tec…
Metaverse policing
The metaverse is an immersive, interoperable, and decentralized 3D online environment that contributes to the emergence of various metacrimes, presenting unique challenges for metaverse policing. Despite the boom of the metaverse, the existing scholarship on metaverse policing has been limited, disconnected, and disorganized. This study systematically reviews 32 selected studies applying PRISMA 2020 guidelines to establish a comprehensive underst…
When the Markets Are Inaccessible
Dark web drug market participants (both buyers and vendors) face frequent disruptions that affect their access to marketplaces. While these disruptions vary in their duration and the actors involved, existing research has largely concentrated on closures by law enforcement. Recognising the broader range of disruptions experienced by participants is essential for understanding how dark web markets adapt and evolve. This paper presents a typology o…
Computer Science (9 works) · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer security (5 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)