Research That Maps the Architecture of Extortion

Organised crime doesn't operate in a vacuum. Behind every extortion network lies a logic — economic pressures, territorial dynamics, social dependencies — and understanding that logic is what the GLODERS project set out to do. The publications gathered here represent years of fieldwork, modelling, and peer review by a consortium of researchers working across multiple European institutions.

From computational simulations of racket market formation to empirical case studies of the Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra, these outputs push the boundaries of criminological method. Agent-based models, game theory, and comparative ethnography sit alongside one another — not as competing tools, but as complementary lenses trained on the same phenomenon.

Whether you're a researcher, policymaker, or curious reader, these works offer something rare: a rigorous, cross-disciplinary account of how extortion racket systems grow, adapt, and — sometimes — collapse. Browse the archive, and follow the evidence where it leads.