Anti Mafia And Organized Crime Analysis

4) The Modern era The Modern era started when the cold war ended in 1990s, without the cold war content the power of both DC and the mafia had declined. People of Italy started to get enraged by the massive corruption scandals of the regime. The relationship between the institution and the mafia start to come apart. In 1991 Italy had established two important organizations in the fight against the mafia: Direzione Investigativa Antimafia and Direzione Nazionale Antimafia. The state started to campaign against the mafia in order to ease people’s anger of the corruption. After the Maxi trail of the 1986 and 19877, 474 mafiosi were charged and 360 were convicted.
The mafia felt threatened and declared war on state. The first massage they

Corruption and organized crime has significant impact on Italy’s economic growth. “Corruption costs Italy an estimated €60 billion annually in wasted public resources, and effectively combating corruption has been a goal for successive Italian governments (Global Security).” Organized crime also affects the Foreign Direct investment; foreign investors have doubt on the corrupt system, therefore hastate on the investment. Italy only managed to attract 1.4 percent of its GDP in foreign direct investment last year, far less than the European average of 3.3 percent

In the year 2011, Organized crime in Italy including all the major Mafia groups had an estimated 140 billion euro in profit, in which about 92 billion euro was from legitimate commercial activities. In total, Mafia activity composed about 7 percent of the Italy's GDP. In another word the mafia had became critical parts of the Italian domestic economy.

2) The sociological influence
Even today, Mafia still had strong influence on Italian’s civil liberty, for instance. The press freedom of Italy is undermined from the censorship of both mafia and the state. Mafia us intimidation to silence the journalist from telling the world about their shady business; state censor the media to try to keep the government out of scandal the Italy only ranked 73rd place out of 180 countries in the latest press freedom index report by Reporters Without Borders.

Conclusion
Throughout past centuries, the mafia had enormous influence in both the economic and political realms of Italy. The birth of mafia was the result of social and political environments of the time. The prosperity of Italian Mafia was extremely relevant to the political power dynamic of cold war. The mafia culture evolved in both positive and negative ways during the modern era. The war against Mafia is continuing while the organized criminal group gained more and more political and economical