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A Simulation Model of Intra-organisational Conflict Regulation in the Crime World

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This chapter can be seen as a sequel to Chap. 10, where the qualitative analysis of texts from police investigations about a criminal network was transformed into a conceptual model of the dynamics that led to the violent breakdown of this network. This conceptual model was transformed and formalised into a simulation model, which is described in this chapter. Subsequently, results gained from simulation experiments with the model are presented.

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    Note that the following description slightly deviates from the story developed in the simulation: In the simulation the agents reason about the aggression. In contrast here, there is immediate shooting, which might be regarded as ‘ad-hoc’ reasoning. Similar events can be found in descriptions of other cases of fight between criminals as for instance the Sicilian Cosa Nostra (Arlacchi, 1993).

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    The space characters (‘…’) indicate that two different in vivo codes (at different parts of the original text) had been used.

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Lotzmann, U., Neumann, M. (2016). A Simulation Model of Intra-organisational Conflict Regulation in the Crime World. In: Elsenbroich, C., Anzola, D., Gilbert, N. (eds) Social Dimensions of Organised Crime. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45169-5_11

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