Next question I am throwing out there in the open, can a local family decide to start it's own mafia ?
The correct answer is an unequivocal no!
The reason I asked is not to entrap anyone ; everyone's opinion is valuable.
I am often torn about what makes a criminal group a mafia or not and that is why this question was asked and also to get different ideas from others as to whether it's a misconception or not.
The Stidda and the Sacre Corona Unita were created much later and many criminologists in Italy have referred to them as Mafias. Then I ask myself the question, if someone creates a criminal organized here in North America what makes them not a mafia ? Isn't that what the earlier Mafioso's from Italy did when they immigrated to America ?
