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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Elsenbroich, Corinna (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Anzola, David (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gilbert, Nigel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Computational Social Sciences,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.