Mafia
Mafia is a term uised tae descriev certain faimily- or culturally-based organisit crime enterprises. The best kent o thaim, an the oreeginator o the term, is the Sicilian Mafia, a criminal syndicate that cam aboot in the mid 19t yeirhunner in Sicily, Italy. Accordin tae the classic definition, the Mafia is a criminal organisation oreeginatin in Sicily.[1] The American Mafia arose frae Sicilians Mafia members immigratin tae the Unitit States durin the late nineteent yeirhunner, follaein waves o Italian emigration. Thay carriet on the criminal tradeetion an structur o thair Sicilian coonterpairts, but evolved intae a pan-Italian group.
Thare wur seemlir affshuits in Canadae amang Italian Canadians. The same haes been claimt o organisit crime amang Italians in Australie.[2] Housomeivver, the term "mafia" haes become a generic term for ony structured organisit crime group.
Creeminal organisations[eedit | eedit soorce]
Italy[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Camorra, a Mafia-teep creeminal organisation, or secret society, oreeginatin in the region o Campanie
- 'Ndrangheta in Calabrie
- Sacra Corona Unita in Apulie
- Stidda in Sicily
Ither kintras[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Albanie mafia
- American Mafia
- Black Mafia Family in the USA
- Bosnie mafia
- Bulgarie mafia
- Chaldean mafia
- Chechen mafia
- Croatie mafia
- Dixie Mafia in the soothren USA
- Indie mafia in Indie
- Erse Mob in the USA
- Jewish mafia
- Kkangpae, kent as Gundal/Jopok, in Sooth Korea
- La Mafia, Mexican drog cairtels
- Macedonie mafia
- Mexican Mafia in the USA
- Mungiki in Kenyae
- Pashtun mafia in Afghanistan
- Pols mob
- Romanie mafia
- Roushie mafia (Organizatsiya) in Roushie
- Serbie mafia
- Triad (unnergrund society) in Cheenae
- Unione Corse in Corsicae (Fraunce)
- Yakuza in Japan
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Lupo, The History of the Mafia Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 1-3
- ↑ Omerta in the Antipodes Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, Time, 31 January 1964.