Mafia history: summary

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History of the Mafia: summary. For starters... what is the mafia? Mafia It is a term that is used throughout the world to refer to a special class of organized crime. The mafia itself was born in Sicily and was called "La cosa nostra" and in its origin it was a confederation dedicated to the protection and autonomous exercise of the law. Later, we will see, it was configured as organized crime. Its origin, in fact, dates back to feudal times. Here begins the birth and throughout feudalism until the nineteenth century Sicily it was ruled by a feudal system. This feudal system exploited thousands of peasants and gave privileges only to the elites (minority of the population), therefore it is necessary to "understand" that criminal policy at that time was the only one that guaranteed being able to have privileges that were only available for that time. minority. The government of that time was unable to protect citizens, which is why they were grouped to protect themselves.

That is where the great importance of blood ties or family ties comes from, because in each region the families made pineapple (nucleus) to protect themselves from external extortion, attacks by powerful etc.

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