RT Article
T1 The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 20
IS 1-2
SP 120
OP 138
A1 Elsenbroich, Corinna
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1819138569
AB Extortion racketeering is a crime that blights the lives of everyone in societies where it takes hold. Whilst most European countries have some form of extortion racketeering, in most countries it is isolated to some ethnic communities. In Southern Italy and Sicily, extortion racketeering is still a feature of overall society. This paper attempts to look at the phenomenon from the angle of collectives, of resistance building through civic organisations such as Addiopizzo. For this investigation a computational model is presented to analyse the effect of team-reasoning on levels of resistance in systemic extortion rackets. An agent-based model is presented that implements the interaction of different kinds of decision-making of extortion victims with law enforcement deterrence. The results show that established extortion rackets are hard to undermine unless bottom-up civic engagement and law enforcement go hand in hand.
NO Published: 10 September 2016
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 137-138
K1 Agent-based modelling
K1 Extortion rackets
K1 Social Change
DO 10.1007/s12117-016-9288-x