Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kuldova, Tereza (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
• Subjects: Organized crime.; Criminal behavior.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Transnational crime.; Critical criminology.; Criminology.; Organized Crime.; Criminal Behavior.; Crime and Society.; Trafficking.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Criminological Theory.

This edited collection offers in-depth essays on outlaw motorcycle clubs and street gangs. Written by sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists, it asks the question of how the self-proclaimed 'outlaws' integrate into society. While these groups may cultivate a deviant image, these...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Tereza Kuldova
• Chapter 2. Gangs, Culture, and Society in the United States; Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
• Chapter 3. Legalization by Commodification; Elke Van Hellemont
• Chapter 4. Dutch Gang Talk; Robert A. Roks and Teun Van Ruitenburg
• Chapter 5. From Bikers to Gangsters; Kim Geurtjens, Hans Nelen and Miet Vanderhallen
• Chapter 6. Men with a Hobby; Willem Koetsenruijter and Peter Burger
• Chapter 7. Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Struggles over Legitimation; Tereza Kuldova and James Quinn
• Chapter 8. Outlaw Bikers Between Identity Politics and Civil Rights; Tereza Kuldova
• Chapter 9. Inside the Brotherhood; Stig Grundvall.