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Essay Archive - The Effects of Organized Crime
The Effects of Organized Crime
The Mafia is a secret criminal organization that wields great
economic and political control over large segments of Sicilian society and
operates both criminal and legitimate enterprises in the United States. It
is believed to have originated during Sicily's late Middle Ages, beginning
as separate bands of strong-arm enforcers hired by locallandowners. It
eventually evolved into a network of autonomous groups governing in rural
areas, ruling a peasantry that received little effective government from a
succession of distant, often foreign, royal rulers.
In its present....
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