Organized Groups Of Crime In Italy

Everyone has heard of the notorious Al Capone. Gang leader from Chicago who is responsible for many murders. What some may not know is that he was also a part of a much larger organization known as The Mafia. Defined by Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary as a “secret criminal society” the Mafia controls all organized crime in a particular area. They knew how to get what they wanted without getting caught and were not afraid of anything or anyone. Although the Mafia is still around today their prime years were from the 1920’s to the 1970’s. `Beginning in the late 19th century organized crime rose in popularity among American people. The Mafia and its following depended on family ties, secrecy, and loyalty as they participated in lawless

The New Mafia refers to style of mafia that became increasingly prevalent in the 1950s. Prior to the New Mafia, the Old Mafia ran their operations with a focus on achieving power in society. They often associated with those in political power, even to the extent of pledging their alliance with a powerful political party in Italy, the Christian Democratic Party (Abadinsky, 2017). In return, their pledge would essentially secure an unofficial position of power within the Italian government.

“It was during the troubled years of the 1860s that the Italian kingdom’s ruling class ruling class first heard talk of the mafia in Siciliy” (Dickie, s38, 2004). In this quote we find a potential reason to why the idea that the mafia was born during the making of the modern Italian state has become leading with scholars. Most likely this event shaped the mafia into what it has become because of the political influence that the Italian state bestowed upon Sicily. However, it is not unlikely that the mafia wasn’t already existing in Sicily during this time, and most definitely that criminal gangs of Sicily before this time had traits that were transferred into the mafia as it evolved under the new Italian kingdom. While the mafia is largely

In this paper it was asked of us as a team to give an in-depth historical analysis of an organized crime group. With this class being about organized crime one would think to write about mobsters, but we decided to think outside the box. Even though when thinking of organized crime the first thought is The Italian Mafia and groups of that sort, one has to remember that organized crime comes in many different forms of organizations. From this class we were able to understand more on organized crime and who can be classified as an organized crime organization. Organizations that one would never really think of as having ties to organized crime may have some

     The Mafia is groups of criminals that developed for the purpose of protecting those who can not go to the police for protection. Its roots can be traced back to Sicily, where the Mafia was based on the premise that any member suffering an injustice was to take personal vengeance while avoiding all

During the early 1900s, specifically the 1920s, organizations involved in sophisticated crime arose and lived on for decades, influencing American progress and culture. These organizations came to be known as the American Mafia, the Italian Mafia, or the Italian Mob. These “families”, as they were called, sprung up in large cities all across the United States. The mob progressed quickly in America, developing from the simplest of crimes to methodical, organized illegal activity. The method of structure and the emphasis of loyalty and secrecy made insiders of the mob very susceptible to exploitation by the local police and federal government agencies, many instances of which were eventually revealed to the public. The mafia, while still around today, fell in prominence and importance in the eyes of the American government and its people. The major time frame of relevance for the American Mafia is about 1920-2001.

Since the 1990’s, organized crime has become a problem among U.S. citizens. The Mafia was the earliest group to show its strengths of power and manipulation among citizens and business of New York City. From the time of the Mafia’s rise, other criminal organizations have surfaced using their power to corrupt personal within business for the gain of finance and political strength. In today society, one of the main question when it comes to these groups is how can criminal organizations be controlled? This paper will identify the problems presented and the various relationships established by organized crime. It will describe the legal limitations associated with combating

The Mafia way of life may seem like a romantic updated version of the western movie played out on the streets of the big cities where the good guys and the wise guys who share the same instincts and values do battle before an enthralled public but it is actually very different. The Mafia is really just a group of uneducated thugs making money by victimizing the public. Initially, the Mafia was setup as a prominent supplier of bootlegged liquor, but it has spread into many different areas of crime. During this research paper I will discuss three aspects of the Mafia which are crime, structure and decline in leadership.

Mafia – this word is well known all around the world, which for many people creates negative visions and associations from the first glance, like violence, contract kills, trafficking of illegal goods, gambling, prostitution and so on. Despite all of these stereotypes and associations, only very few people can tell what actually “Mafia“ means. It is an easy guess, where this word has its origins – without a doubt it came from Sicily. Originally, Mafia or Mafioso means aggressive boasting or bragging and has origins from Islamic Sicily times in 9th century A.D. Mafias are concerned to be organized criminal groups with broad network of connections all around the world, which usually are penetrated inside the state apparatus and thus their existence is dependent on the state. I would like to present and analyse one of the most famous mafia groups in the world – the Cosa Nostra. I would like to include the background of its establishment, provide explanation of the original structure of this organization, look inside its activities in Italy and United States of America distinguish its image in media and pop culture and reality and justify the stereotypes of Cosa Nostra.

The Italian Mafia in the U.S. can trace its origins all the way back to the Sicilian Mafia which was founded in Sicily during the 1800’s (Italian Organized Crime). After thousands of years of different armies with different nationalities conquering Italy and exploiting its people, the Sicilians became to be more clannish and family focused. Originally they were just resistance fighters that were protecting their friends and family. They were relied on for protection, justice, and survival. Nobody cared if they got money from it because it came from the oppressive authorities. Members of these groups were known as “Men of Honor” and they were well respected and even admired because they looked out for their family and kept silent sometimes even unto death. They didn’t become an organized crime group until the 1920’s however (Italian Organized Crime). It was around this same time that the US began to see what later became La Cosa Nostra or “our thing,” better known as the American Mafia which was aided by the “thousands of Italian organized crime figures, mostly Sicilian Mafiosi” who came to the United States illegally (Italian Organized Crime). The modern American Mafia is credited to Charles “Lucky” Luciano who came over in the 1920’s (Italian Organized Crime). Luciano structured La Cosa Nostra just like their Sicilian

Imagine living in a world where crime ruled. A world where gangsters were more powerful than politicians, owned the police, and ran the city in whatever way they felt. They robbed whom they wanted and killed when they didn't get their way. Now stop imagining and realize that this happened here in the United States of America in the 1920's. It was run by an organization made up mainly of Italians called the Mafia.

In fact, politicians gained electoral consensus thanks to the “mafiosi” (members of the mafia community), meanwhile bosses obtained more state protection, political and economic power. This system benefited the few bosses that played their followers as cards in their game, establishing in their mind important values such as fraternity, loyalty, respect the apex and following directions. This is a valuable example of inequality: the top hierarchies take control of the lower classes by influencing the political system and silently controlling the economic one, often spreading fear and death to its opponents. A well-known example of repression to different ideologies is the assassination of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, both judges and prosecuting magistrates, occurred on May 23rd 1992, the day after Borsellino was proclaimed head of the Public Prosecution Office of Palermo. The crime was planned because these two figures were discovering illicit affairs and therefore knew too many information that connected organised crime to the politics. Although these two brave politicians tried in vane to make a change, not all legislators act in such way. This is the case of the recent scandal of "Mafia Capitale", Rome's organized crime activities from the beginning of the 2000's, which brought to light the organized criminal conspiracies that the Romans mayor Gianni Alemanno was involved in. This is just to make explicit that illegality is on daily basis in Italy, and even if it is not directly shown, it is still

The Mafia began as more of an idea than an organization and transformed along cultural lines in rural western Sicily, the Camorra was deliberately structured as an urban-based criminal society. Camorra took control over agriculture and the urban Naples markets. They dealt in cigarettes and construction business. The modern Camorra is also less structured and less family based than is the Mafia. Also in contrast to the Mafia, the Camorra permit women to participate directly in their criminal activities, usually in the absence of their imprisoned husbands or even as a result of his death. In comparison, like the Sicilian Mafia of recent past, Camorra leaders have engaged in violent struggles that have taken the lives of dozens of people.

Italy’s international police is responsible for protecting the boarder for illegal trafficking and domestic crime. The Interpol National Center Bureau (NCB), which is party of Italy international police Cooperation Service (SCIP), has “two divisions within SCIP that focus on fighting crime such as organized crime, terrorism, illegal immigration, drugs, missing persons, environmental crime, property crime, and wanted fugitives” (Interpol, 2015). Organized crime has been a major problem in Italy for a number of years. Organized

Speaking about criminality, it is necessary to say about Italian mafia. Based on the report of 2009 year, commissioned by Italy's parliamentary anti-mafia commission, it is possible to say that now it is silently prospering, moving on from spectacular crimes and massacres to business and politics, with a prudent dose of intimidation and violence in a bid to take over the fundamental role of the state. The highest concentration of people living under the shadow of the mafia, 95.9%, was in the province of Agrigento in Sicily, followed by Naples, at 95%. (Tom Kington, guardian.co.uk, 2009).