Mafia

Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia is a translocal fraternal organization whose respective local families called cosche (singular, cosca) lay claim to rural communities, urban neighborhoods, and suburbs, primarily in western Sicily. This organization began to coalesce after 1860 when the newly unified Italian state advanced capitalist development. The commoditization of land was especially disruptive, dispossessing peasants of

Mexican Mafia

The Mexican Mafia is a prison gang, being the first such gang to establish extralegal governance over prison inmates as well as criminal street gangs conducting gang-related criminal operations outside prison walls. It achieved this power and control by offering protection services to incarcerated gang members in return for payment of taxes (percentages of criminal

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