Mafia groups have always maintained a structure to operate their activities and actions properly and widely. The structure is described below. It may differ, but as usual this structure is followed. Every group is built up of several gangs, which is known as families. The range of number of families can be from less than [...]

Making money is the vital issue of the Mafia. Families use a multiplicity of their activities to achieve this. The most common and the simplest is extortion. The extortion is forcing the people to relinquish money by threatening in some way. Mafia “safety rackets” are this extortion method. They tell shop owner that he needs [...]