Mafia

Maranzano’s death, Charles Luciano became the new leader of the Italian Mob, and set up the code of conduct and established procedures for resolving disputes between families (“Italian Organized Crime”). He also set up the “Commission,” in which each mafia family from…

The Winter Hill Gang was an infamous Irish-American gang that ran Boston. It was at its worse when James “Whitey” Bulger was in charge in the 1970’s. James got away with almost everything he did because he had a deal with the FBI. We’ll get into that later though, let’s start with how the gang was formed. The Winter Hill Gang was developed in the 1960’s and the founders were James J. “Buddie” McLean and Howard “Howie” Winter. James McLean was born in 1930 and Howie was born in 1929. They met at…

One of the most well-known and infamous organized crime families in the history of the United States is the Bonanno crime family. The Bonanno Italian mafia crime family’s origins go back to the beginning, in Sicily. In 1908 Salvatore Bonanno moved his family to New York. There he quickly took over the Bonanno-Magaddino-Bonventre clan and ran all business in the neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Later he returned to Sicily and died of a heart attack in 1915. The clan went through several…

comparing gangster films from back then to today one will see quite a change in things like acting, graphics, special effects, and the way gangsters are demonstrated. These qualities have change extremely over time. The Gangster genre contains films with mafia related crime, and violence due to drug wars, money and other personal additions. According to New American Crime Film, “Crime films have existed since the very beginning of cinema” (Gordon 1). The first crime film ever made is The Great…

Union era played a significant role in stabilizing organized crime by turning a blind eye, or committing crimes themselves. The Kremlin was not the only part of the Soviet Union that was corrupted by the mafia. The Communist party had control over the police and judiciary systems. Therefore, the mafia was able to utilize the police and judiciary for informal protections. The protection provided by the government is another enabling factor of organized crime. “With the Communist party also in…

In this essay I will comparing the way that Arthur Miller looks at the themes of crime, justice and honour in both American and Italian society. I am looking at how characters’ views of the main themes change throughout the play and the ways in which these change effect the direction that the play takes. One of the main themes that Miller looks at is the view of crime and what consists of a crime in American and Italian culture. An example of this is the story of Vinny Balzano where a young boy…

Organized crime takes place all over the world, and it is often characterized by a group of well-organized criminals, who work jointly in committing unlawful activities. The crime is always well coordinated with an aim of avoiding possible identification and arrests of the perpetrators. Similar to any other country in the world, gangs are very prevalent in the United States of America. As a part analysis of gangs and organized crime committed by criminals, a historical case study of a leader of…

numerous reliable sources including: books, interviews, newspapers, journals, and websites. The three books not only allowed me to understand the depth of the intricate contributions that took place but also they taught me the structure of how the mafia operated. One of them, “Get Capone”,…

This paper is about the five crime families of New York City which are Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and the Lucchese families. These families were from the Italian American Mafia also known as La Cosa Nostra and the first to be involved in organized crime. Salvatore Maranzano was the person that began the families in 1931. “The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime. The Genovese family took advantage of lax due diligence by…

cities in Italy. These cities experience different levels of Mafia presence - provided by Transcrime (2013) - as measured by the Mafia Presence Index (MPI). Additional experimental manipulation made it possible to investigate whether the presence of the Mafia changes the economic benefit of keeping a wallet when money was included in the wallet. By introducing a priming treatment to remind recipients about the power of the Italian Mafia, the author examined whether an extended threat of…