Many, if not most, attempts at understanding the mafia inevitably revert to the phrase "organized crime." The mafia does indeed include and actively support organized crime - it would be naive or wrong to assume otherwise. However, organized crime is not enough to explain such a phenomenon as the mafia.
This is a very complex process, uniting under itself a single network, where everyone shares the same system of rules and values. In this video, we will try to discuss the question that remains unanswered: What is the mafia? This video does not try to answer this question, but gives a number of examples to clearly demonstrate that the mafia is not just organized crime.