Running head: The Origins Of The Mafia. 1 The Origins Of The Mafia http://www.history.com/topics/origins-of-the-mafia Summary Justyna Bielińska-Spodobalska filologia angielska I rok SUM The article The Origins Of the Mafia which is available on the website; http://www.history.com/topics/origins-of-the-mafia introduces the reader into the world of the Mafia and explains that the term Mafia had been evaluating for years and did not always mean the same. At the beginning it was not connected to the criminal organizations. According to the author, it initially described a person that was suspicious of central authority. The Mafia has its roots in Sicilian family groups that protected themselves and other landowners from foreign invaders. They had own system of justice and retribution and kept it secret. Despite the Sicilian Mafia there are three other huge criminal networks in Italy. What is more, the author adds that in the 1870s the Italian government wanted to use Mafia to take charge of Rome but in fact, the Mafia rose in power up to the twentieth century. In 1970s it became the most important member of the international drug trafficking network. From the article, the reader learns also
The Origins Of The
Mafiahttp://www.history.com/topics/origins-of-the-mafia Summary
Justyna Bieliska-Spodobalska
filologia angielska I rok SUMThe article The Origins Of the
Mafia which is available on the website;
http://www.history.com/topics/origins-of-the-mafia introduces the
reader into the world of the Mafia and explains that the term Mafia
had been evaluating for years and did not always mean the same. At
the beginning it was not connected to the criminal organizations.
According to the author, it initially described a person that was
suspicious of central authority. The Mafia has its roots in
Sicilian family groups that protected themselves and other
landowners from foreign invaders. They had own system of justice
and retribution and kept it secret. Despite the Sicilian Mafia
there are three other huge criminal networks in Italy. What is
more, the author adds that in the 1870s the Italian government
wanted to use Mafia to take charge of Rome but in fact, the Mafia
rose in power up to the twentieth century. In 1970s it became the
most important member of the international drug trafficking
network. From the article, the reader learns also about the
American Mafia which benefits from whoredom, drugs and
loansharking. Both American and Sicilian clans have been successful
inter alia because of using a code of conduct known as Omerta.
Although in the twentieth century Sicilian and American Mafia are
not as powerful as they used to be, the role of the Mafia is still
changing.
