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Mafia
Type of organized crime enterprise
This article is about a type of criminal organization.
Italian mafia today
For the original groups first known as “the Mafia”, see Sicilian Mafia and American Mafia. For other uses, see Mafia (disambiguation).
"Mafia", as an informal or general term, is often used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original Mafia in Sicily, to the Italian-American Mafia, or to other organized crime groups from Italy.
The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of disputes between criminals, as well as the organization and enforcement of illicit agreements between criminals through the use of threat or violence.[1] Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, drug-trafficking, prostitution, and fraud.
The term Mafia was originally applied to the Sicilian Mafia. Since then, the term has expanded to encompass other organizations of similar methods and purpose, e.g. "t