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Jamaican Yardies – Part One
The term Yardies has come to be the descriptive word for Jamaican gangsters, particularly in the places where they have settled abroad – most notable the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The word derives however, from a more … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, drugs, ganja, history, jamaican yardies, kingston, trenchtown, u.k., u.s., violence
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The Sicilian Mafia – Part Four
Some time ago we left the Sicilian mafia to check out some of the world’s other organised crime organisations but we’ll return to it for this post. By 1930 the Sicilian mafia had effectively been destroyed by Mussolini and the … Continue reading
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Tagged cuba, history, joseph bonanno, palermo, sicilian mafia, sicily, world war two
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Japanese Yakuza Part One
In the West we tend not to look too critically at some of the organisations in what we would call the Far East. We’ve generally heard of these groups, the Chinese Tong, the Hong Kong Triads and of course the … Continue reading
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Tagged bakuto, guide, history, japanese yakuza, organised crime, tekiya
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United States – Italian Mafia – Part Two
Previously we discussed the modest beginnings of the Italian mafia in North America and how during the nineteenth century they had been restricted to the small areas traditionally inhabited by immigrants to the United States, specifically areas such as East … Continue reading
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Tagged american mafia, cullen-harrison, history, luciano, maranzano, new york, prohibition
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United States – Italian Mafia – Part One
A multitude of television programmes and movies have, over the years, introduced us to what Hollywood and various television companies regard as the U.S.-Italian mafia organisations. These have of course been of various levels of quality and fact, perhaps the … Continue reading
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Tagged david hennessy, history, new york mafia, origins, sicily, us mafia
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The Sicilian Mafia – Part Two
We finished the last article describing how Sicily had begun to be affected by mafia-style behaviour. The West of the island and Palermo in particular were beginning to experience types of illegal activities that we now associate with organised crime. … Continue reading
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Tagged extortion, history, mafia, palermo, sicily
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The Sicilian Mafia – Part One
As with many criminal organisations, the early years of what we now know as the Mafia was a period of organic evolution. The history of the origins of his group suggest that it grew out of necessity in the prevailing … Continue reading
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Tagged feudalism, history, mafia, palermo, sicilian mafia
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Mafia History – Introduction
Mafia organisations and similar groups that could be included in that term exist in almost every country around the world. Even in the most unlikely places such as North Korea or Burma, we could term elements of the security services … Continue reading