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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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