Mafia

The Mafia are certain organized crime organizations associated with Sicily, Italy, and later with Italian-Americans. Mafia may also be used more generally as a term for organized crime organizations.

Organized crime is according to the FBI often organized along ethnic lines. It includes many more ethnicities/races and structures than the traditional media stereotype of the Italian-American mafia, such as the very powerful Jewish mafia, often ignored in media depictions.

The Italian mafia was suppressed by Mussolini and the Italian and the Italian-American mafia covertly worked with the Allies.

See also

• Meyer Lansky
• Race and crime: Organized crime

External links

• The Death and Life of the Mafia in Italy, From Suppression by Mussolini to Revival by 'Liberation,' 1926-1946

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica: Mafia
• Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 Edition: Mafia
• Encyclopedia.com: Mafia
• Encyclopedia.com: La Cosa Nostra in the United States