THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Stidda is just families which is not sanctioned by the commission. So because some people disagreed with the murder of Pippo Calderone, Di Cristina and didn't agreed on other policies of the Corleonesi they started to form a new family in this or that village. It was later the case in Agrigento as well. The phenomenon was widespread except in Palermo and Trapani and so they started to say it's a new organization instead of they are rebels who didn't agree with the leadership of Cosa Nostra.

But after the high number of arrests when Cosa Nostra needed proven men they recognized the membership of these guys and so most of the Stidda families just disappeared.

Actually they say family but really it's just a nice word for gang and that's what they all are - gangs.

I was reading in a big reference book called organized crime that the stidda was made of sicilian mafia members that ran from toto riina or who were inprisoned members exiled to northern Italy and it was becoming the new aged mafia. Ia that true?

Would camorra and ndrangheta be more of the same small time almost gang like clans?

And there was one more Italian group they wrote in this book... Dont remmember. This book claimed thr latter was bigger then the sicilian lcn

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Analysts divide Camorra into two subgroups: the so-called metropolitan and provincial Camorra.

Metropolitan camorra is typical of the Naples area and is characterised by a very fragmented criminal scene, with myriad medium-small gangs controlling neighbourhoods and districts.

"They are street organisations similar to American gangs," said Camorra expert Marcello Ravveduto, a researcher at Salerno University.

Provincial camorra refers instead principally to clans based in rural areas surrounding the city of Caserta. These have a more established structure permeating the region's political and business scene, in a similar fashion to Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta.

This type of camorra has long been embodied by Casalesi clan that was named after the town of Casale di Principe.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/italian-mafia-who-are-cosa-nostra-camorra-ndrangheta-sacra-corona-unita-1500221



The Camorra has a horizontal, federal structure, unlike the hierarchical pyramid of Cosa Nostra, or the closed families based on blood ties in the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria. Its numerous clans have an endless recruiting ground among the poor and disenfranchised, and while casualties are high - in the past 30 years, 3,600 people have been killed with weapons imported and distributed by the clans - the dead are quickly replaced.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3670541/Inside-the-Camorra-the-other-Italian-mafia.html

Hi...does anyone know the typical Camorra clan structure if there even is such a thing? I remember reading in Gomorrah that the Di Lauros were not structured like an LCN family.

Can anyone provide some insight?