Social Dimensions of Organised Crime: Modelling the Dynamics of Extortion Rackets

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.