Part one of term paper
, America’s most organized crime group, has dominated the crime scene for centuries. It’s largest profits come from drugs and gambling. Other forms of illegal profit come from loan-sharking, labor racketeering, hijacking, pornography, and prostitution. is a secret criminal organization that began in Sicily. The idea of a secret societ ...

Part two of term paper
... the power of their criminal group. Over a period of time the Sicilian Mafia began to participate in other activities besides land control. They engaged in things; such as, cattle theft, extortion, and kidnapping. By the turn of the century, the Sicilian Mafia was the most powerful and well organized of all Italian criminal groups. “Like a cancer, the Sicilian approach to crime was metastasizing, sending out its aberrant cells to colonize social tissues elsewhere, especially in the ...