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Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test
Hindawi, Volume 2018, Article ID 3568085, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2018/3568085. Abstract Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets
Countering Across Contours - A Collective Conversation: Workshop, film screening and discussion
Venue: Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg A methods workshop, work-in-progress screening, and open discussion bringing together participants, media, and approaches from the three year artistic research proj. We will engage with group efforts to offer new visual approaches to hidden struggles within transport, data, and logistics industries—workers, stories, and vantage points that have been “ghosted” from dominant narratives. Through the concept of a collectively investigated counter-aesthetics we will examine how art practices embedded within or alongside labour organizing and social movements, seeing and sensing systems of power, production, and resistance. Beyond basic introductions of why we need different forms of public engagement with logistics, the conversation will connect sites and contexts from the Nordics to Southern Europe to the Middle East, asking for example how struggles against Amazon connect cross-border to struggles for Gaza.We welcome guests—a mix of workers, organizers, artists and ad hoc researchers—from near and far.Participants:• Michele Amaglio, artist (Bologna)• Bahaleen Collective (Aya Besio, Noura Salem, Elia El Khazen) (Jordan)• Peppe Dalesio, organizer, S.I.Cobas (Naples)• Benjamin Gerdes, artist and organizer, Ghost Platform (Stockholm)• Magda Malinowska, filmmaker, worker, and organizer, Amazon Workers International & OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poznań)• Robert Ochshorn, software engineer and media researcher (Brussels)***The workshop is open to everyone. Artists, students, activists, researchers and logistics, data, and transportation workers are particularly invited to participate.Language: EnglishAfter the program, Skogen invites everyone to participate in a communal dinner. Skogen has no set ticket fee, but we take in donations for art, workshops, food.With the support of: Vetenskapsrådet, Nordisk Kultur Fond, and Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.
Uncovering the degree of criminal organization: Swedish street gangs and the role of mobility and co-offending networks
Social Science Research Abstract In this study we investigate organized crime by studying the degree of criminal organization. We use population-level register data on criminal suspicions between 2011 a
Criminal nomads: The role of multiple memberships in the criminal collaboration network between Hells Angels MC and Bandidos MC
Global Crime vol. 23, no 2 Abstract Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) have received increased atten-tion from both law enforcement agencies and the research com-munity. This study investigates the criminal
The complexity of crime network data: A case study of its consequences for crime control and the study of networks.
PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119309., doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119309 Abstract The field of social network analysis has received increasing attention during the past decades and has been used to tackle a variety o
What insights can data visualization techniques generate?
Visualizing information is a way to communicate scientific results efficiently and in an appealing way. This is particularly important if scientists want to communicate their results not only to their
Anna Hedin Ekström
PhD student at Gävle University. I am focusing on issues regarding unlawful influence, work environment, violent extremism and security. In the project ”countering extremism on a local level” I will s.
