Social dimensions of organised crime : modelling the dynamics of extortion rackets /: modelling the dynamics of extortion rackets. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Corinna Elsenbroich, David Anzola, Nigel Gilbert, editors.
• Editors: Elsenbroich, Corinna; Anzola, David; Gilbert, G. Nigel
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 364.106; Computer science; Organized crime -- Social aspects; Organized crime -- Mathematical models; Extortion -- Mathematical models; Computer simulation; Criminology; Data mining; Social sciences -- Methodology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Organized crime -- Social aspects; Computers -- Database Management -- Data Mining; Science -- System Theory; Social Science -- Methodology; Crime & criminology; Data mining; Social research & statistics; Computers -- Computer Simulation; Computer modelling & simulation; 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; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319451695; 3319451693; 3319451677; 9783319451671
• Related ISBNs: 9783319451671
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 22, 2016).
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