caa a22 4500 445294523 CHVBK 20180317142538.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12117-009-9088-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12117-009-9088-7 Entertainment starts with an E: the ecstasy market in Greece [Elektronische Daten] [Georgios Antonopoulos, Georgios Papanicolaou, Mark Simpson] The purpose of this article is to provide an account of the social organisation of the ecstasy market in Greece. Concern about ecstasy production, distribution and use in Greece has risen since ecstasy appeared in the country in the early to mid-1990s, and continues to be fuelled by media reports which reinforce the perception that there are huge profits for traders. Moreover, the Greek authorities have adopted a ‘war on drug' rhetoric when it comes to ecstasy trafficking. Thus, the fact that such mentalities are commonplace, while the knowledge deficit about the particular market remains gaping, makes it an imperative to examine the structure and dynamics of the ecstasy market in the country. We aim here to provide an account of the ‘extent' and nature of the ecstasy market in Greece as well as a presentation of the ‘actors' involved. We also explicitly focus on the issue of price of ecstasy tablets in the country, which we regard as key to the understanding of the logic of this particular market. Our investigation of various aspects of the market concludes with a number of more systematic observations regarding the particular business. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2009 Ecstasy nationallicence Night-time economy nationallicence Greece nationallicence Antonopoulos Georgios School of Social Sciences & Law, Teesside University, TS1 3BA, Middlesbrough, UK aut Papanicolaou Georgios School of Social Sciences & Law, Teesside University, TS1 3BA, Middlesbrough, UK aut Simpson Mark School of Social Sciences & Law, Teesside University, TS1 3BA, Middlesbrough, UK aut Trends in Organized Crime Springer-Verlag 13/1(2010-03-01), 31-45 1084-4791 13:1<31 2010 13 12117 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-009-9088-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-009-9088-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Antonopoulos Georgios School of Social Sciences & Law, Teesside University, TS1 3BA, Middlesbrough, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Papanicolaou Georgios School of Social Sciences & Law, Teesside University, TS1 3BA, Middlesbrough, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Simpson Mark School of Social Sciences & Law, Teesside University, TS1 3BA, Middlesbrough, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Trends in Organized Crime Springer-Verlag 13/1(2010-03-01), 31-45 1084-4791 13:1<31 2010 13 12117 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer