The Recruitment of Members from Organized Crime and Terrorist Groups: First Results from European Union ProTon Project

• In Event: Policy Panel: Immigration and Transnational Crime In Europe

Abstract

PROTON aims at exploring the processes of recruitment to organized crime and terrorist networks (OCTN) through integration between social and computational sciences. Moving beyond the state of the art, this integration will support evidence-based policies at the international, national and local level. To achieve its aim, PROTON will complete three specific objectives:
1. Investigate the social, psychological and economic factors leading to OCTN, including their connection with cybercrime and the cyberspace.
2. Develop PROTON-S, agent-based modelling simulations of the effects of different societal and environmental changes on OCTN.
3. Develop PROTON Wizard, a user-friendly software tool embedding the results of the ABM simulations.

Authors

• Alberto Aziani, Università Cattolica - Transcrime

• Andrea Scavo, Università Cattolica - Transcrime

• Ernesto Ugo Savona, Università Cattolica - Transcrime