Societa' Honore, The Honored Society, is a perpetual phenomena of Sicily, Calabria, and Campania. Its origins date back hundreds and hundreds of years (in one form or another) to almost "antica," or antiquity. It's not going anywhere, anytime soon. It may never end. Because by its very nature it is a "mentality" more than a simple organization that is ingrained into the very fabric of Southern Italy itself, and it people so to speak. Omertà is a phenomena in and of itself that is adopted by the core Italian populous where it is considered "unmanly" for anyone to act dishonorably in any way, even for a female, not only regarding criminality, but in normal daily Italian life itself....its threads run so deep!

But its internal and external dynamics have changed greatly. For better or worse I suspect it will continue to morph as they have always done.