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You have full access to this open access article. During the last decades, Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs OMCs have become a concern for crime prevention and law enforcement agencies. The general perception of OMCs is ambiguous. They are seen either as highly structured criminal organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs for conducting sophisticated criminal enterprises, or as clubs built around the camaraderie of freedom-seeking bikers.
Our results reveal a complex picture. Co-offending network patterns and offense type distributions vary for each sub-organization, indicating potential differences in organizational dynamics. Besides increasing our understanding of OMC collaboration structure, our results have implications for crime prevention strategies. We suggest that social responses and law enforcement efforts should take into account the heterogeneity of OMCs in order to avoid counterproductive consequences in terms of increased group cohesiveness.
The term denotes a subculture comprising organizations that bring together and organize motorcycle riders into clubs with distinctive and recognizable value system, set of principles, symbols and paraphernalia embracing a certain law-breaking character Lauchs et al.
Organizing on two wheels: uncovering the organizational patterns of Hells Angels MC in Sweden
These are the largest both in terms of international expansion and membership Barker ; NGIC The big four and other transnational OMCs pose serious concerns to law enforcement agencies around the world. McIntosh has argued that from relatively humble beginnings, outlaw motorcycle gangs, such as the Hells Angels, Outlaws, Bandidos, and others have evolved into sophisticated organized crime syndicates responsible for a large proportion of the global illicit drug and weapons trades.
However, as Barker has suggested, any discussion on OMCs begins with the central question of their fundamental nature. Are OMCs a group of individuals organized around the love for motorcycles in certain clubs, and that happen to have members who break the law like other social organizations such as the policeor are OMCs criminal gangs whose members ride motorcycles and are organized and devoted to crime for profit e.
Footnote 2. Most of the OMCs have similar organizational rules and structures, usually with elected officers for designated roles such as president, vice president, treasurer, road captain, and sergeant-at-arms Lauchs et al.
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Harris argues that these clubs provided opportunities for their members to oppose mainstream establishments, which were perceived as suppressing their individuality Harris The post-war re-established camaraderie also explains the militaristic organizational design of OMCs, with officers, sergeants-at-arms and other symbols and paraphernalia which uphold the subculture of OMCs.
And this gateway from social malaise may also explain the commonality between OMCs and religious sects that Watson found in his study such as extreme in orientation and separation from the mainstream community through in- and out-group distinction. In other words, they do not represent themselves as criminal enterprises or gangs. While, it is generally recognized that criminality is a significant aspect of the OMCs milieu Richardson ; Quinn and Forsyth ; Quinn and Shane Koch and are classified as a form of organized crime Abadinskythere are different views on how this criminality can best be described.
In their attempt to explore the nature of criminality within OMCs, Qiunn and Koch outlined four distinct types of offenses that can be observed within these groups: 1 spontaneous expressive acts one or a few members involved in violent crimes, such as bar fights, directed at rivals or other actors from within the saloon society milieu ; 2 planned expressive acts violent crime committed against adversaries and reflecting the priorities of the club ; 3 short-term instrumental acts exploiting an opportunity to meet a goal for at least one member such as theft ; and 4 ongoing instrumental enterprises planned criminal activities involving one or more cliques such as drug production and distribution.
It is established in around 56 countries spanning five continents and may have as many as members red devils mc sweden tröja into more than chapters Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation ; NGIC ; Rikskriminalpolisen b. HAMC is not red devils mc sweden tröja category-defining for other OMCs; they have also served as a role model for other types of gangs, such as Swedish street-gangs Rostami We do this by investigating the patterns of criminal collaboration in co-offending relations and criminal offenses.
Among Outlaw biker organizations, HAMC stands out both as a pioneer in förbrukning mercruiser and global expansion and in many countries, such as in Sweden, where they have had a hegemonic position among other OMCs and gangs Rostami Even though Sweden has traditionally had a biker culture, the Swedish biker culture has been strongly influenced by the developments in the US Grundvall ; Lagergren From privileged entertainment for the upper class in the early s to transportation for the working class in the s, a peculiar biker subculture developed in the s and later.
Similar to developments in the US, Swedish biker culture was strongly influenced by media culture Grundvall ; Lagergren At the end of the s and the s, Swedish outlaw culture took off, according to Grundvall and Fredeliusstrongly influenced by the motion picture The Wild One With the expansion of the Swedish biker culture, violent conflicts arose between motorcycle clubs. As problems proliferated, the authorities began to take an interest in the clubs Grundvall However, during the s—both in Sweden and Denmark—violent conflicts between different outlaw clubs reached a new level, and the larger international outlaw organizations such as HAMC and Bandidos entered the Scandinavian scene.
Clubs in conflict, as in the case of Denmark and Sweden, frequently sought protection in larger international outlaw clubs such as Hells Angels and Bandidos, resulting in conflictual formations affecting recruitment of members and club identity. The development of the Swedish biker milieu is characterized by merging and segmentation. Before the introduction of Hells Angels and Bandidos the Swedish OMCs consisted of locally bounded single chapters which later merged into the Hells Angels and Bandidos during the s.
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In the early s new OMCs emerged such as Outlaw MC, Mongols MC and later the Satudarah MC, and challenged previously dominating clubs, resulting in a segmented biker landscape and an increased need of allocated other biker clubs for recruitment of new members both from within the biker milieu and non-bikers. A have sought to organize biker clubs who do not belong to any fraction but accept being under the influence of either Hells Angels MC or Bandidos MC Rikskriminalpolisen b Today RWC has 13 chapters in Sweden.
The first three were formed in and the rest from onwards. RWC is not a traditional biker club; in fact, they do not have the basic recruitment procedure of other biker clubs, such as having access to a motorcycle. The RWC does not have a formal hierarchy structure aside from two levels of affiliation, full membership and those who have applied for membership.
The latter cannot participate in internal meetings of the organization and thus have a lower status than full members.