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Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

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This chapter takes a close look at crimes by organisations which are not legally established; such as outlaw motorcycle gangs and gangs that are founded on ethnicity and indigeneity. The authors discuss how Australia and New Zealand have responded to these organisations and what outcomes resulted from these responses. They provide the history of the groups and their culture. In doing so, they address the misconceptions about the nature and operation of the “gangs” especially in relation to their participation in serious criminal activity.

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  1. School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Mark Lauchs

  2. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Jarrod Gilbert

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  1. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Antje Deckert

  2. University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Rick Sarre

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Lauchs, M., Gilbert, J. (2017). Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. In: Deckert, A., Sarre, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_11

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