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 original studies show that we should not let ourselves be deceived by appearances.
These ¿outlaws¿ are paradoxically well integrated into mainstream society. The essays read
the relationship of these groups to the media law enforcement and society through the lens of
their strategies of ¿scheming legality¿ and ¿resisting criminalization¿. These reveal most
strikingly how the knowledge of social codes norms and mechanisms is put to use by these
groups. This groundbreaking volume provides answers to previously understudied questions
through well-researched case studies drawn from across Europe and United States. With
wide-reaching implications for communities around the world this exciting collection of essays
will be of great interest to academics and governmental institutions as well as students and
general readers of anthropology sociology and criminology.
