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The market for extortions

2001
We consider extortion gangs that are mafia-like in their protection of targets, but that are unlike the Mafia in their competition over targets. Does this type of organized crime pay? How are the returns to extortion affected by the number of competing extortionists and the violence they apply?
Mehlum, Halvor, Moene, Karl Ove, Torvik, Ragnar   +2 more
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Extortion

2020
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Extortion, intuition, and the dark side of reciprocity

Cognition, 2022
Fiery Cushman, Regan Bernhard
exaly  

Extortion

2021
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The Extortion Relationship

2016
Systematic extortion involves a long term parasitic relationship between the criminal and the victim. Game theory analysis has provided insight into the choices of individual hypothetical criminal and victim pairs. In this paper we present an agent-based model so as to extend the analysis to the relationship between extorters and other potential ...
Elsenbroich, Corinna, Badham, J
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Use of kidnapping and extortion as a tool for financing terrorism: the case of the PKK

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2021
Niyazi Ekici
exaly  

Does it matter who extorts? Extortion by competent and incompetent enforcers*

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2022
Andrew Samuel, Ajit Mishra
exaly  

Evolution of cooperation in the spatial prisoner’s dilemma game with extortion strategy under win-stay-lose-move rule

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2020
Zhixue He, Lei Shi, Yini Geng
exaly  

Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization

Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2020
Patricio Rodrigo Estévez Soto, Shane D Johnson, Nicholas Tilley   +2 more
exaly  

Pizzo vs. Piso: Extortion as a Legitimacy Practice in Sicily and Michoacán

SN Social Sciences, 2021
Rodrigo Peña González
exaly