Sixteen European-based academics take a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding extortion rackets, such as those of the Sicilian Mafia and German predatory extortion, based upon the Global Dynamics of Extortion Racket Systems (GLODERS) project funded by FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development). This work is one of many in the unfolding field of computational social science that not only analyzes data, but additionally runs simulations and develops data-based models to understand current and future environments. As such it is a valuable study not only for the specific subject matter, but also for the potentially broad application of the techniques employed.
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