Presentations at the Societal Dimentions of Organised Crime Conference, Rome, 23-24 September 2015

• Welcome address: Professor Rosaria Conte, Vice-President of the CNR’s Scientific Council, Rome, Italy

• The evolution of Mafa organisations and the construction of a European law against organized crime: Antonio Balsamo, President of the Court of Assize of Caltanissetta, Italy

• How realistic are our simulation models?: Klaus Troitzsch, Professor emeritus, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany

• Typology of Extortion Racket Systems: David Anzola, University of Surrey, UK

• An Experiment on the Formation and Maintenance of an Intimidating Reputation by Extortion Racket Systems: Áron Székely, Giulia Andrighetto, Luca Tummolini & Rosaria Conte, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

• Evaluating Policies for Countering Extortion Racket Systems:A Simulation Approach: Luis G. Nardin, Giulia Andrighetto, Áron Székely & Rosaria Conte, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

• Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian Mafa: exploring the role of cultural representations in research on organized crime: Amber Phillips, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

• The embeddedness of organised crime and the inters of intervention: Vanessa Dirksen, Toon Abcouwer & Ron Boelsma, Netherlands Police Agency; Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Sociological and juridical aspects of Extortion Racket Systems in Italy: Vincenzo Militello, Antonio La Spina, Giovanni Frazzica, Valentina Punzo, Attilio Scaglione, University of Palermo, Italy

• Understanding Organised Crime Online:  David S. Wall, Professor of Criminology in the Centre for Criminal Justice studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

• Looking at Complexity and Dynamics in the World of Organized Crime: Toon Abcouwer, Vanessa Dirksen & Ron Boelsma, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Netherlands Police Agency, The Netherlands

• Agent-based Modelling for Theory Testing: Dynamics of Extortion Racketeering: Corinna Elsenbroich, University of Surrey, UK

• The Societal Dimensions of Rome’s Loan Sharking Sector: Isabella Clough Marinaro, John Cabot University, Italy

• Corruption as a Design Problem of Social Systems: Camilo Olaya, Laura Guzmán & Juliana Gomez-Quintero, Universidad de los Andes, Columbia

• Mafia war: emergence and collapse of social order in criminal organisations: Martin Neumann & Ulf Lotzmann, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany

• Bringing computation into criminal investigation. A document-enhancement and network analysis tool: Nicola Lettieri, Delfna Malandrino & Luca Vicidomini, ISFOL/University of Sannio, Italy