Social Dimensions of Organised Crime Modelling the Dynamics of Extortion Rackets /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elsenbroich, Corinna (Editor), Anzola, David (Editor), Gilbert, Nigel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Computational Social Sciences,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; Computer simulation.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Simulation and Modeling.; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

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...