Karma is just one single score u can get, and reputation is a score that is different with certain NPC etc (multiple scores for different NPC's or something like that)? Something like that?

btw, mafia treated their wives fairly right. At least, I know (from a book) of a case where a member was punished for repeatingly hitting his wife <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. A mentally very disturbed man would more likely kill his wife <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />