|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
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.
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.
The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action,
the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between
individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional
modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of
agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro
interactions. Existing agent-based models of social norms are
discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority has been
given to parsimonious models and questions of the emergence of
norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as norm-change, not
being modelled. Juvenile delinquency, group radicalisation and
moral decision making are used as case studies for agent-based
models of collective action extending existing models by providing
an embedding into social networks, social influence via
argumentation and a causal action theory of moral decision making.
The major contribution of the book is to highlight the multifaceted
nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting not only of
emergence, and the importance of embedding of agent-based models
into existing theory.
The book focusses on questions of individual and collective
action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback
between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses
traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the
usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these
micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based models of social
norms are discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority
has been given to parsimonious models and questions of the
emergence of norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as
norm-change, not being modelled. Juvenile delinquency, group
radicalisation and moral decision making are used as case studies
for agent-based models of collective action extending existing
models by providing an embedding into social networks, social
influence via argumentation and a causal action theory of moral
decision making. The major contribution of the book is to highlight
the multifaceted nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting
not only of emergence, and the importance of embedding of
agent-based models into existing theory."
|
|