La evolución de la Cosa Nostra: perspectiva criminológica

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to make an analytical-criminological study about Cosa Nostra’s evolution, as an organized group belonging to one of the Sicilian mafias.

In this paper, I have analyzed different basic concepts comparatively, with definitions of various authors, as well as legal, in certain cases. In addition, this paper addresses the Cosa Nostra’s criminal organization in past, present and future time, making a prospective analysis, pointing and arguing its possible evolution in the short and long term. Also includes the code of honour of the Cosa Nostra, its rules, mafia rites, as well as its geographical expansion to, finally, reach several conclusions.