Goodfellas, The Sopranos, And The Godfather

When talking about the American Mafia, mostly it’s referring to the Italians and their influence. During the height of the Mafia its influence on society was massive and mostly in a negative way. In pop culture, the Mafia represented violence, gang affiliations, and criminals. Although, in the perspective of our generation today some view them as heroes. The reason for this is mostly from the rise of hip-hop in society and how people view it.

drugs or do drugs, but they mostly bootleg(Illegal Alcohol) or steal clothes from trucks and sell them. Also, the Mobs didn’t really like the laws and rule that the Government made for people. The Mobs wanted a more self- reliable Government to themselves. Mobs in mafia work in a very similar structure by creating A family structure. What I mean by structure I mean by class, organization and the rules. First the Boss, second the underboss Third the vice boss, fourth soldiers and lastly

The movie itself depicts real world situations of what we know about the mob today, the John Gotti's, the Genovese family and even La Cosa Nostra. According to www.fbi.gov "They are some of the most notorious and widespread of all criminal societies" (2010). These Italian-American gangsters were involved in prostitution, drug trafficking, gambling, murder, money laundering and racketeering, many of the things that we see in The Godfather. Mafia families have struck fear in the lives of many and their communities. Murders would occur in the middle of the street in broad daylight. Communities were downtrodden with narcotics, alcoholics, and gangsters until the government stepped in to start indicting these individuals, locking them up and throwing away the

The Mafia, a network of organized-crime groups, evolved over the centuries on the island of Sicily, located just off the coast of south western Italy, and the Italian mainland. Up until the mid-19th century, Sicily had been ruled over by a line of foreign invaders dating back hundreds of years. The citizens of the island state banded together and created groups to protect themselves from foreigners and carry out their own justice against the invaders. The word Mafia, having been derived from the Sicilian word, Mafioso, means family. At the turn of the 19th century, these groups morphed together to form their own private armies, also known as “mafie.” These groups would extort protection money from land owners and would eventually be known like they are today as a violent criminal, gangster, pimp or hitman.

Today the word “mafia” is used to refer to almost any organized crime group, and in some cases is even used to describe groups completely unrelated to crime. However, the traditional meaning of “mafia” is: organized criminal organizations of Italian or Sicilian heritage. In organized crime groups such as the mafia there Is a hierarchy, with higher ranking members making decisions that trickle down to the other members of the family. The mafia is not a single group or gang it is made up of many families that can

The Mafia is a type of organized crime syndicate. Organized crime is a certain type of crime that is neatly executed and well planned out. When a group, like the mafia, attends in organized crime, it almost always involves illegal activity and is for a profit of some sort. Other times the mafia collects money or dues from a shopkeeper for the protection of his/her business by the mafia. For example, if a store's owner came to the head mobster and ask for protection the store would there for be protected from other gangs for as long as the owner pays their dues.

The Italian mafia was created by Salvatore Maranzano in 1931 members of the “cosa nostra” made money by joining any activity that is illegal. The five family bosses are Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese and Bonanno. If you wanted to become a member of the mafia you had to be “ man of honor” because they want to be known of the greatest mafia ever. A female gangster in italy are called gunmo some believe that the world mafia still have over 5,000 members today. John gotti is the godfather of the italian mafia. In 1957 and 1961 gotti go caught up in crimes his first arrest involved street fighting, public intoxication and art theft./ in may of 1973 he committed his first murder shooting Jimmy McBratney member who had kidnapped and murdered a gang member of the Gambino family. The mafia was supported by the catholic church by the twentieth century Modifikasi were extorting money from upper areas and by the end of century they were killing priests. The Bonanno crime family was one of the most powerful family in the century. Bonanno mafia was led by the boss Giuseppe he was only 26 years-old and youngest mafia leader. “ I don't lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid.”- John Gotti. A group of “cosa nuestra” got caught trying to smuggle over a billion worth of cocaine into italy. The group tried to import 17,637

Human nature dictates that individuals will almost always seek to gain the most they can for themselves. Organized crime is just a natural progression of that because individuals are able to pull together their resources to gain more than they may have alone. Perhaps one of the most notorious of all organized criminal groups was the New York City Mafia. Although the Mafia did not originate in New York City, their most notable influence and lucrativeness came from New York. Alexander Hortis began his examination in The Mob and The City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York, by breaking the book into three important distinctions. New York through prohibition, New York during the 30s and 40s, and New York post 50s.

When you think of the Mafia one's mind may think of numerous Mafia movies like "The God Father" which is a movie that was made in 1972 about a fictional Mafia family, the Corleone Family or Goodfellas, and Scarface just to name a few. Those movies just give the viewers a small insight of how the Mafia or organized crime works. Organized crime has been around for some time now and many familiar names had been associated with organized crime. The FBI defines organized crime as "any group" having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities (Abadinsky, 2013). Famous Mafia families such as the Maranzano, Bonanno, Luciano, Genovese, Mangano, and the Gambino family is just a few families that many people may know or even heard of. Carlo Gambino and the Gambino Crime family is probably well known all over the world and known as one of the richest and most powerful crime families to date.

The Mafia is one of the most notorious and well known gangs in history, who have been around for many decades. According to the video, the Mafia have always been the porn kings of America and Times Square is their crown jewel. Activities the Mafia participated in included loan sharking, gambling, and prostitution. Most of their money is made in more respectable and mainstream industries. (APA) Individuals who belong to the Mafia has no issues with torturing or committing gruesome acts of violence if needed.

Nowadays, the Mafia is perceived to be a transnational criminal organization, riddled with violence and gang-like activity. For example, the American Mafia has been described as, “A cult, a secret society, a brotherhood among men, and even a pack of rats that eat anything in their path including each other” (Inside the American Mob). On the flip side, the Italian Mafia groups have been described as, “gangs, whom besides running a series of illicit businesses, also pervade the social environment in which they operate, influencing aspects of public and private life to cement their power” (Bacchi). Given these descriptions, it would stand to reason that the Mafia groups across the globe are a force and even now are considered a threat to society. However, when speaking about the Mafia groups it is important to first understand that they are independent of each other and differ from country to country. That is not to say that they do not work together, but rather that they have their own independent structures, which have developed in accordance with their differing countries’ legitimacies and institutions. Furthermore, while there are many different Mafia groups across the world, in this essay, through case studies of “The Sopranos” and “La Scorta”, as well as other relevant texts, I will firstly analyze how the American and Italian Mafia groups rose to power and endured under similar conditions. Secondly, I will explain how due to the greater legitimacy of the American

The book History of the Mafia by Salvatore Lupe states, “Police and judicial sources are very bit as rife with ulterior motives as other sources.” It was far too easy for Mafia members to get away with acts like murder and do things like steal money. I stand behind the idea that this is due to the Roman Officials and people who were supposed to control law in Sicily. History.com says, “In the 1870s, Roman officials even asked Sicilian Mafia clans to help them by going after dangerous, independent criminal bands; in exchange, officials would look the other way as the Mafia continued its protection shakedowns of landowners. “ The Officials said this deal would only last for a short period of time, long enough for Rome to gain control of Sicily. Despite this, the Mafia became even more influential and prominent on the island. They began to act more criminally and illegally. This most likely lead them to believe that the law didn’t apply to them and they just began to run from it while looking for a glorious life. For example, in Wisguy by Nicholas Pileggi, Henry Hill and his friends easily made 5,000 dollars by stealing trucks and then they had the plan to go to Las Vegas. Innocent people were being robbed just for a few young boys to make money that they would later spend on nothing

The new communications media-television and Internet play an important role in the initiation of public interest in the Mafia and OC. The new communications media getting more and more advance everyday, especially the Internet. In today world, you can do plenty things through the Internet like shopping, apply for jobs, reading the new, or study…. so the Mafia or OC could use it too, like to transfer money, stole people information, communicate, or even control their organization through the screen with out actually meeting in person. They could use Internet or media to built their reputation then create the “ghost company” to scam people and get peoples’ money or attack their targets (enemies or the government) with the lower chance to get

Mafia is a crime organization which active in Italy. They also called as man of honor. The Mafia concept was started at the Palermo, Sicily, Italy in 19th century. Mafia is a way of life at the beginning, a way how the men protect their family and loved ones from the injustice of government. Mafia developed into a secret crime society after a few generations.

When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of mobsters such as Joe Gallo, Tommy Lucchese, Charles “Lucky” Luciano and Al Capone. These men left a legacy behind for the mafia to succeed, and history remembers their names. Yet these sensational depictions of these men can take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both