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Digital Transformations in Drug-Related Crime: Figurations, Interdependencies, and Balances of Power
Digitale Transformationen in der Drogenkriminalität: Figurationen, Interdependenzen und Machtbalancen
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Abstract The effects of digital transformations are already being researched in many ways in the context of the police. What this body of work has in common is that it refers to current developments. My research also focuses on current processes of change within a classic criminal phenomenon but places it in... view more
The effects of digital transformations are already being researched in many ways in the context of the police. What this body of work has in common is that it refers to current developments. My research also focuses on current processes of change within a classic criminal phenomenon but places it in the context of long-term processes in order to derive both the resistances to innovation and possible specific opportunities for organisational change that result. The online drug platform "Chemical Revolution" serves as an exemplary case study. Norbert Elias’s figuration and process sociological approach (expansion by Rammert’s concept of distributed action) enables an analysis at micro, meso, and macro levels. It shows that long-term social processes continue under digital conditions and reproduce diverse modes of action. At the same time, power chances for crime investigation are shifting under digital conditions from consumers (micro-crime) to markets (macro-phenomena). Although Elias himself did not deal with digital technologies, this illustrative study nevertheless makes clear the value of his process-oriented perspectives and tools (valencies, interdependencies, power balances, figurations)... view less
Keywords
digitalization; effects of technology; drug-related crime; police; organizational change; digital media; illegitimacy; figuration; power; Elias, N.
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Free Keywords
digital transformation; police organisation; micro-macro-analysis; sociology of figuration and process; concept of distributed agency; drug trafficking; platforms and infrastructures; Organisation; Figurational and Process Sociological Perspective; Platform
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 261-290
Journal
Historical Social Research, 47 (2022) 3
Issue topic
Digital Transformation(s): On the Entanglement of Long-Term Processes and Digital Social Change
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed