The commissione was created to control violence that individual families could not govern alone.

Evidence

The commissione came about precisely because of the argument that every family acted as they liked—all capidecina, you could say. Every one of these was a rappresentante. There was a point at which whenever someone wanted to do anything, he just did it. This commissione came into existence to stop all these ugly things which were going on. Everyone owned everyone else’s life… and what was that?! And so they made a commissione so that for any murder, even of someone within the family, you went to the commissione and asked whether that person was supposed to live or die, this was the commissione. But it did not work like that for long. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s Gambetta/Milgrom framework: this is the private judges’ cartel emerging to solve the enforcement vacuum — the Molokins’ commissione mirrors Milgrom’s law merchant filling a coordination gap.