Mafia

Mafia usa na klase sin organisado na crime syndicate na nagpra-practice sin protection racketeering  ngan nagamit sin violente na intimidasyun para manipula an lokal na aktibidades pan'ekonomiya, labi na gud illicit trade; ngan mga  actibidades sugad san drug-trafficking, loan shark nganfraud. 

An ngaran na Mafia una na gin-apply sa Sicilian Mafia, ngan nag'expand ngan gingaran na sa mga organisasyun na napaerho an mga pamaagi ngan katuyoanan, sugad san; "the Russian Mafia", "the Japanese Mafia", or "the Albanian Mafia". Mafia liwat an ginngaran san mga kriminal na organisasyon na may lugaring na ngaran. (halimbawa, an Sicilian ngan American Mafia gintatawag nira an kalugaringun na "Cosa Nostra", an Mexican Mafia gintatawag na La Eme ngan an "Japanese Mafia" gintatawag na yakuza). An tipikal na "Mafia" amo an  Sicilian Mafia ug an American Mafia.

International
Mafia-proper can refer to either:
Sicilian Mafia
American Mafia
Russian Mafia (including Chechen mafia)
Albanian Mafia

Italy 
Other Italian criminal organizations include:
 Camorra, operating in the region of Campania
 'Ndrangheta in Calabria
 Sacra Corona Unita in Apulia
 Stidda in Sicily

iba na nasod 
Armenian mafia
Azeri mafia
Assyrian mafia
Bosnian mafia
Brazilian cartels
British crime firms
including Turkish-Cypriot mafia and Pakistani mafia
Bulgarian mafia
Canadian Aboriginal organized crime
Neo-paramilitary criminal gangs, also called BACRIM, in Colombia
Corsican mafia
Dixie Mafia
Dutch Penose
including Riffian mafia and Kajahatan
French Milieu
including [[Milieu (organized crime in France)#Les Caids des Cités|Caids des Cités]]
Georgian mafia
Greek mob
Indo-Canadian organized crime
including Tamil organized crime
Irish Mob in Ireland and USA
Israeli mafia
Jewish-American organized crime
Kkangpae
KKK or Klu Klux Klan
Mexican cartels
Mexican Mafia in the USA, also called "La Eme"
Mitsri Mafia
Montenegrin mafia
Nigerian mafia
Organised crime in India
Preman
Pathan mafia
Sindikato
Serbian mafia
Triads
Turkish mafia
including Kurdish mafia, Laz mafia and Mhallami mafia
Yakuza
Yardies

References

Sources
 Albanese, Jay S., Dilip K. Das & Arvind Verma , (eds.) (2003). Organized Crime. World Perspectives, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 9780130481993
 Dickie, John (2007). Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, Hodder. ISBN 978-0-340-93526-2
 Gambetta, Diego (1993). The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection. London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80742-1
 Hess, Henner (1998). Mafia & Mafiosi: Origin, Power, and Myth, London: Hurst & Co Publishers, ISBN 1-85065-500-6
 Paoli, Letizia (2003). Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-515724-9
 Seindal, René (1998). Mafia: money and politics in Sicily, 1950-1997, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, ISBN 87-7289-455-5
 Servadio, Gaia (1976), Mafioso. A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day'', London: Secker & Warburg ISBN 0-436-44700-2

Organized crime
Krimen