Were the Weboys A Crime Family? Or Just Mean?

I saw this a year or two ago and I remember the major scenes and confrontations, and the climax.

Quite a agonizing premise, for the "good" grandparents to potentially lose their little grandson to a decidedly cruel and evil-minded family of muscular men led by an ultra-cruel and evil-minded matriarch (a widow, no evil patriarch around.)

What I can't remember is whether or not the Weboys (such a wacked-out name in the pronounciation-- "WE-boy") were OFFICIALLY some sort of "rural Mafia family" -- involved in criminal endeavors of any sort.

I do remember "Uncle Bill" noting that the young mother of the grandchild had taken a job in town at "Monkey Wards" -- ie Montgomery Ward, so at least SHE was doing honest work.

Anyway, I guess I could watch it again but I just can't remember if that was spelled out -- the Weboys were "mobbed up?" Or just plain mean? Our just plain CRAZY? (Chopping off fingers and the like.) Possibly some in-breeding going on.

Obviously local law was intimidated by them. Took no action on the finger thing. Told the "good grandparents" -- "The boy is a Weboy now. Learn to live with it."