Interpretive Account to Agent-Based Social Simulation - Using Criminology to Explore Cultural Possibilities

Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).

List of contents

1. Introduction. An Interpretive Account of an Agent-Based Social Simulation 2. Epistemological foundations 3. The use of ethnographic social simulation for crime research: From the field to the model 4. A framework for simulation in interpretive research: Growing criminal culture 5. Analysis of the breakdown of a criminal network: Criminal collapse 6. A simulation model of intra-organisational conflict regulation in the crime world 7. Hermeneutics of Social Simulations 8. Transdisciplinary reflections: Science in context 9. On the Construction of Plausible Futures in Interpretive Agent-Based Modelling 10. Outlook on potential further directions

About the author

Martin Neumann is Research Associate at the Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication of the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Product details

• Authors: Martin (Jgu Mainz Institute for Sociology Neumann
• Assisted by: Martin Neumann (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032493237
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249323-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Anthropology, EDUCATION / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, REFERENCE / Research, computer science, Politics & government, Politics and government, Legal aspects of criminology, Moral and social purpose of education, Social research & statistics, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Information technology: general issues, Higher education, tertiary education, Criminal justice law, Social research and statistics, Information technology: general topics, Moral & social purpose of education, Criminology: legal aspects, Research methods: general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science