Full Description
The title of this volume Outlaw Bikers as Organized Crime reluctantly combines two highly contested concepts into a statement that is perhaps disputed even more. Who and what do we refer to when we talk about 'outlaw bikers' and 'outlaw biker clubs'? What is meant by 'organized crime'? And, how - if at all - are these two concepts related? All the chapters in this volume deal with these questions some way or the other, either explicitly or implicitly, each providing its own answers based on the data and methods at hand.
This volume presents cutting-edge research on outlaw bikers and outlaw biker clubs from countries all over the globe and reflects the different ways that academic researchers have approached the outlaw biker phenomenon from the theoretical and methodological vantage point of organized crime research.
Contents
1. Introduction: Outlaw Bikers as Organized Crime? 2. Outlaw Bikers in the Swedish Parliament: How Motorcycle Clubs Became Organized Crime 3. Surveying the Landscape: Assessing Public Perception of Outlaw Motorcycle 4. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs in Australia: Exploring Variability in Gang Member Involvement in Organised Crime 5. Typifying Dutch Outlaw Bikers: A Latent Class Analysis 6. Riding the Digital Highway With the Mongols and the Vagos: Applying OSINT Techniques to Assess Member Criminality and Connectivity 7. A Conceptual Framework of (Illegal) Governance Behavior: A Case Study of Dutch Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs 8. Questions About the Relationship Between Domestic Violence and Membership of a 1%- Motorcycle Club 9. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs As a Source of Revenue 10. Secrecy, Control and Organised Crime: State Responses to 'Bikies' in Australia 11. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs in the Netherlands: Developments and Responses
