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The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6979701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12117-016-9288-x |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-69797012020-02-03 The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling Elsenbroich, Corinna Trends Organ Crime Article 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. Springer US 2016-09-10 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6979701/ /pubmed/32025180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12117-016-9288-x Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Elsenbroich, Corinna The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling |
title | The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling |
title_full | The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling |
title_fullStr | The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling |
title_full_unstemmed | The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling |
title_short | The Addio Pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling |
title_sort | addio pizzo movement: exploring social change using agent-based modelling |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6979701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12117-016-9288-x |
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