Detecting Fentanyl and Major Players in Darknet Drug Markets by Analyzing Drug Networks and Developing a Threat Assessment Tool, Global, 2020-2022 (ICPSR 39131)
Version Date: Sep 25, 2025 View help for published
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Marie-Helen Maras, John Jay College of Criminal Justice;
Jana Arsovska, John Jay College of Criminal Justice;
Adam Scott Wandt, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39131.v1
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This study conducted both qualitative and quantitative analysis of scraped data from multiple Darknet marketplaces. The objective was to gain an understanding of fentanyl sales and trust in vendors in order to build a threat assessment tool. The marketplaces in the data include Versus, Cartel, ASAP, Tor2Door, ViceCity, and AlphaBay. Variables include product description/listing, category of products, price of product, amount per sale quantity, quantity available for sale, date vendor registered for the site, date last active on the site, vendor description, various vendor ratings and scores, and vendor/product feedback messages.
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Users of Darknet markets
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.