Social Dimensions of Organised Crime Modelling the Dynamics of Extortion Rackets

Social Dimensions of Organised Crime Modelling the Dynamics of Extortion Rackets / edited by Corinna Elsenbroich, David Anzola, Nigel Gilbert.

This book presents a multi-disciplinary investigation into extortion rackets with a particular focus on the structures of criminal organisations and their collapse, societal processes in which extortion rackets strive and fail and the impacts of bottom-up and top-down ways of fighting extortion rack...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Elsenbroich, Corinna (Editor), Anzola, David (Editor), Gilbert, Nigel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Computational Social Sciences,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Computer simulation.
Criminology.
Data mining.
Sociophysics.
Econophysics.
Social sciences.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Extortion Rackets as a Global Phenomenon.- National Mafia Type Organisations: Local Threat, Global Reach.- Basic Dynamics of Extortion Racketeering
  • Part II: Society and the State.- Social Norms and Extortion Rackets.- Legal Norms against the Italian Mafia
  • Part III: Extortion Rackets in Society.- Mafia Methods, Extortion Dynamics and Social Responses.- An Agent-Based Model of Extortion Racketeering.- Extortion Rackets: An event-oriented model of interventions.- Survey Data and Computational Qualitative Analysis
  • Part IV: The Criminal Organisation.- Text Data and Computational Qualitative Analysis.- A simulation model of intra-organisational conflict regulation in the crime world
  • Part V: Synthesis and Conclusion.- Calibration and Validation
  • Conclusion.

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