Mafia

This businesslike structure allows for the Sicilian Mafia to gain control over small towns throughout Sicily giving the local people and local government no chance to exterminate the Mafia. Although the government has tried to intervene before to exterminate the Mafia from Sicily, it has never been fully effective. The Mafia thrives off of filling the gaps that the government does not which is why the most effective attempt to rid Sicily of the Mafia was during Mussolini’s ruling during World War II. The Mafia does not operate well under fascist control because in a fascist political system the dictator controls everything and if the dictator controls everything than there is no room for the Mafia to control anything. Luckily for the Mafia, fascism never really caught on in Sicily until Mussolini sent military forces into Sicily to regain control of the region and imprison all Mafiosi.…

There is this game called “Mafia” that many people have certainly heard of if not played themselves. Basically how to play is there is a storyteller who secretly assigns a role to all of the players involved. There are two groups of people. There is the Mafia and the “innocents” (Wikipedia). The Mafia are the “killers”and the innocents are the ones who are able to be “killed” (Wikipedia). After the groups are picked, the rest of the game is up to the storyteller to navigate. In order for…

traditions did not change for the Italian immigrants. The mafia originated in Sicily, Italy. It came to the United States through immigration. Even though the mafia remained in Italy, the newly formed…

The Mafia are some of America's favorite bad guys. They are the subject of countless television series, movies, and books. When people hear the term Mafia or Mob, they may often think of the violent and ruthless tactics they used to get what they wanted. What many do not realize is that, from the early to mid-twentieth century, the Mafia had a hand in many aspects of American culture that people still enjoy today. Prohibition arose out of the Progressive Era at the end of the eighteenth…

law-abiding citizens but there were quite a few bad apples who had escaped from the wrath of Benito Mussolini. To Mussolini, the Mafia was a huge threat and needed to be dealt with swiftly. In turn, over a “thousand suspected Mafiosi were convicted and thrown in prison” (“The Demise of the Mafia,” 2009), and those who were lucky enough to escape continued their illegal activity in a country that had no idea how to deal with it. That’s where the roaring twenties come into play. The 1920s was most…

The origin of the Mafia began in Sicily, Italy. The migration to America begun when Don Vito Ferro of the “La Costra Nostra” had to flee to New York from Sicily. Don Vito Ferro was escaping from an angry enemy. Accordingly, Mussolini, the fatal prime minister of Italy, worked to try to exterminate the Mafia in Italy. With a push from Mussolini, many members of the Mafia began to flee to America throughout the 1900’s (History of the Mob). About twenty years later from the root of Italian American…

Russian Mafia: Soviet Crime in United States of America The Russian Mafia were a popular crime syndicate even posing as the greatest threat to the U.S. national security during the mid-1990s. With over 6,000 different groups around the globe, their activities are flown under the radar and limited action has been done to aware United States citizens. The Russian Mafia are commonly know as “Bratva” and still remain a trouble to America and it is important to understand their origins, the…

American Mafia, or mob, as many call it, organized crime reaches far more people, in vastly diverse ways than one may realize. Organized crime is as much an American staple as the hotdog or baseball. However, the American Mafia opened the doors of truly organized, ruthless, and powerful…

With the Fascist party repressed and World War II over, Italy was ready to establish a new political movement. In 1943 The Christian Democratic party or the DC a conservative group was founded. Although the Mafia had a long history of fighting over power with the government, especially during Mussolini’s rule, the relationship between the DC and mafia would be much more unified. When the DC was founded, Don Calo, known as one of the most influential mafia bosses of Sicily was also making his…

people or a single individual, negative actions may even happen with good intent. In the case of the Mafia however, it has cause negative impact long before the 1920’s. However, there is something about the 1920’s that make the negative impact even more noticeable. Not only did affect the prohibition era it also left negative impacts even after that. The Mafia made their first appearance in the 1800’s and had already established themselves in the social and economic parts of Italy. Today…