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 racketeering.
Through integrating a range of disciplines and methods the book
provides an extensive case study of empirically based computational
social science. It is based on a wealth of qualitative data
regarding multiple extortion rackets, such as the Sicilian Mafia,
an international money laundering organisation and a predatory
extortion case in Germany. Computational methods are used for data
analysis, to help in operationalising data for use in agent-based
models and to explore structures and dynamics of extortion
racketeering through simulations. In addition to textual data
sources, stakeholders and experts are extensively involved,
providing narratives for analysis and qualitative validation of
models. The book presents a systematic application of computational
social science methods to the substantive area of extortion
racketeering. The reader will gain a deep understanding of
extortion rackets, in particular their entrenchment in society and
processes supporting and undermining extortion rackets. Also
covered are computational social science methods, in particular
computationally assisted text analysis and agent-based modelling,
and the integration of empirical, theoretical and computational
social science.
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