This essay presents an introduction to the special issue on outlaw motorcycle clubs in Europe. Apart from providing an overview of the papers contained in the special issue, it presents a classificatory scheme for the analysis of the links between outlaw biker clubs-also known as outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs)-and crime. Against the backdrop of the history of the outlaw biker subculture in Europe, this paper proposes a five-fold typology of criminal activities that can potentially by ascribed to biker clubs as organizational entities, and it presents three different scenarios for an overlap of criminal structures and the formal structure of an outlaw biker club.

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公害、公敌、公仆？欧洲非法骑自行车者特刊简介

本文介绍了关于欧洲非法摩托车俱乐部的特刊。除了提供特刊中包含的论文的概述外，它还提供了一个分类方案，用于分析非法摩托车俱乐部（也称为非法摩托车团伙 (OMCG)）与犯罪之间的联系。在欧洲非法骑自行车亚文化的历史背景下，本文提出了一种犯罪活动的五重类型学，这些犯罪活动可能被归咎于作为组织实体的骑自行车者俱乐部，并提出了犯罪结构和犯罪结构重叠的三种不同场景。非法自行车俱乐部的正式结构。