True Crime: Illegal markets have great variety (PNAS)

The forthcoming issue of PNAS (August 18, 2026 | vol. 123 | no. 33 ) has a big set of papers on illegal markets, with the goal of searching for common features, which turn out to be somewhat elusive. Research Article August 10, 2026 A budding science of illegal markets Illegal markets create untold societal and environmental harm, but they have attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention.…