Social Dimensions of Organised Crime

1. Introduction
Corinna Elsenbroich, David Anzola, Nigel Gilbert

Part I. Extortion Rackets as a Global Phenomenon

2. National Mafia-Type Organisations: Local Threat, Global Reach
David Anzola, Martin Neumann, Michael Möhring, Klaus G. Troitzsch

3. Basic Dynamics of Extortion Racketeering
David Anzola

Part II. Society and the State

4. Social Norms and Extortion Rackets
Áron Székely, Giulia Andrighetto, Luis G. Nardin

5. Legal Norms Against the Italian Mafia
Vincenzo Militello

Part III. Extortion Rackets in Society

6. Mafia Methods, Extortion Dynamics and Social Responses
Antonio Spina, Vincenzo Militello, Giovanni Frazzica, Valentina Punzo, Attilio Scaglione

7. An Agent-Based Model of Extortion Racketeering
Luis G. Nardin, Giulia Andrighetto, Áron Székely, Valentina Punzo, Rosaria Conte

8. Extortion Rackets: An Event-Oriented Model of Interventions
Klaus G. Troitzsch

9. Survey Data and Computational Qualitative Analysis
Klaus G. Troitzsch

Part IV. The Criminal Organisation

10. Text Data and Computational Qualitative Analysis
Martin Neumann, Ulf Lotzmann

11. A Simulation Model of Intra-organisational Conflict Regulation in the Crime World
Ulf Lotzmann, Martin Neumann

Part V. Synthesis and Conclusion

12. Calibration and Validation
Klaus G. Troitzsch, Luis G. Nardin, Giulia Andrighetto, Áron Székely, Valentina Punzo, Rosaria Conte, Corinna Elsenbroich

13. Conclusion
Corinna Elsenbroich, David Anzola, Nigel Gilbert

Keywords: 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