Hidden and Forbidden - Empiricizing Dark Knowledge
This study aims to build on the theory of Dark Knowledge proposed by Burnett and Lloyd (2020).
Summary
Dark Knowledge may be considered by society to be the knowledge that deviates from societal norms and may pose a danger to the moral or physical conditions of everyday life. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) 2014 World Drug Report suggests that the hidden Dark Net drugs markets have ‘the potential to become a popular mode of trafficking in controlled substances in years to come’.
An exploratory project, this work seeks to extend this emergent research area beyond its current theoretical position, and will identify types and forms of dark knowledge relating to illegal drugs markets present on the Dark Web, and to use those in the production of a classified framework for Dark Knowledge, for use by drug enforcement agencies.
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