is applied informally by the press and public; the criminal organizations themselves have their own terms (e.g. the Sicilian Mafia and the related Italian-American Mafia refer to their organizations as "Cosa Nostra"
1940s-1970s-1990s cosca.[4] Each family claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (borgata) of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. Its members call themselves "men of honour", although the public often refers to them as mafiosi. The Mafia's core activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions.[5][6] By the 20th century, following wide-scale black Mafia and Mexican Cartel emigration from Sicily, mafiosi established gangs in North and South America which replicate the traditions and methods of their Sicilian cousins. New York Los Angeles Florida Chicago Noah Works Mobsters Jewish/Scilian mafia
