Evolutionary dynamics of organised crime and terrorist networks.

ABSTRACT: Crime is pervasive into modern societies, although with different levels of diffusion across regions. Its dynamics are dependent on various socio-economic factors that make the overall picture particularly complex. While several theories have been proposed to account for the establishment of criminal behaviour, from a modelling perspective organised crime and terrorist networks received much less attention. In particular, the dynamics of recruitment into such organisations deserve specific considerations, as recruitment is the mechanism that makes crime and terror proliferate. We propose a framework able to model such processes in both organised crime and terrorist networks from an evolutionary game theoretical perspective. By means of a stylised model, we are able to study a variety of di

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Vaquero LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611905 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature