Outlaw Bikers as Organized Crime

Herausgeber: Blokland, Arjan; Deuren, Sjoukje van; Lampe, Klaus Von

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138490956
• ISBN-10: 1138490954
• Artikelnr.: 70149148

Autorenporträt

Arjan Blokland is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Leiden Law School, Leiden University, the Netherlands. At the time of editing this volume, he was Obel Visiting Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include criminal careers and life-course criminology, criminal networks, and organized crime. Klaus von Lampe is a Professor of Criminology at the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Berlin, Germany. He has previously been a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. His research interests include the conceptual history, theory and empirical manifestations of organized crime, as well as crime prevention and international law enforcement cooperation. For his book Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-Legal Governance, he received the Outstanding Publication Award from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime. Sjoukje van Deuren is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Her research interests include organized crime, criminal networks, and outlaw motorcycle clubs.

Inhaltsangabe

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