Can agent-based simulation models replicate organised crime?
Authored by Klaus G Troitzsch
Date Published: 2017
DOI: 10.1007/s12117-016-9298-8
Sponsors:
European Union
Platforms:
NetLogo
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Abstract
The aim of the paper is to discuss the possibility of using complex
software agents in a simulation model in order to represent and analyse
the dynamics of certain types of criminal systems via Agent Based
Modelling (ABM), in particular Extortion Racket Systems (ERSs). It
presents a simulation model and the results of a large number of runs to
find out under which parameter constellations governing the normative
behaviour of the software agents the model replicates the macro
observations in a number of provinces in Southern Italy. Finally the
simulation model is applied to analysing strategies and their effect on
the behaviour of the agents and the system as a whole.
Tags
Norms
Extortion rackets
Deliberative agents