Capodecina
Template:Short description A Script error: No such module "Lang". (literally 'head of ten',[1] also called caporegime in the American Mafia) is the head of a Script error: No such module "Lang"., a branch within a Sicilian Mafia family. In the larger families, a Script error: No such module "Lang". is selected by the head of the family and coordinates units of about ten people.[2]
Mafia members are organized under the supervision of a Script error: No such module "Lang". who reports his activities to his superiors, who may be the consigliere or even the boss of the Mafia family himself. The term derives from Script error: No such module "Lang". ('ten'), suggesting that each would be in charge of ten men.[3] The term was mentioned as early as the 1880s in Sicily to describe the organisation of the Fratellanza, a Mafia-type organisation in Agrigento, in the south of Sicily.[4]
The Mafioso Melchiorre Allegra spoke of a Script error: No such module "Lang". in his 1937 testimony. He said a family split into groups of ten men each when it became unmanageably large.[4][5]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Schneider, Reversible Destiny, p. 83
- ↑ Paoli, Mafia Brotherhoods, p. 41
- ↑ Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia, p. 111
- ↑ a b Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia, p. 294
- ↑ Twentyfive pages of Allegra’s testimony were published in 1962 in the newspaper L'Ora by Mauro De Mauro. See: Testimony of Melchiorre Allegra Script error: No such module "webarchive"., ExLEGI website
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Gambetta, Diego (1993).The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection, London: Harvard University Press, Template:ISBN
- Paoli, Letizia (2003). Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style, New York: Oxford University Press Template:ISBN (Review)
- Schneider, Jane T. & Peter T. Schneider (2003). Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo, Berkeley: University of California Press Template:ISBN