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Bookmark or Share- Italian mafia: How crime families went global - BBCSicilian Mafia - Cosa Nostra. The Sicilian gangs established the model for other mafias. They meted out local justice in the 1800s, then grew in power and sophistication. Cosa Nostra means...
- Viewpoint: Why Sicilians still turn to Mafia to settle scores - BBCHere Federico Varese, Professor of Criminology at Oxford University, describes how the Mafia - or Cosa Nostra - continues to influence Sicilian life, despite the state's successes against it in...
- Origins of the Mafia - Meaning, Location & Sicily | HISTORYBy the 1950s, the Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra, Italian for “Our Thing”) had become the preeminent organized-crime network in the United States and was involved in a range of underworld ...
- Sicilian Mafia - WikipediaThe Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa-], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their protection and arbitration services ...
- Sicilian Mafia | History, Families, Leaders, & Facts | BritannicaSicilian Mafia, hierarchically structured organization of criminals in Sicily, Italy. The Sicilian Mafia is made up of a coalition of criminal organizations—called “families” or “clans” in English and cosche (singular, cosca) in Italian—which engage in extortion, smuggling, gambling, and the mediation of disagreements between other ...
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