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Paper · Semantic Scholar

Ride to die: masculine honour and collective identity in the motorcycle underworld

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature and extent of violent practice in the motorcycle underworld. It does this by considering the murder of Gerry Tobin, and then uses the biography of the founding member of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club (HAMC) for a critical analysis. The authors are interested in understanding the role of masculine honour and collective identity, and its influences in rela…

picked 14 Aug 2026

Reference · Wikidata

Outlaws MC criminal allegations and incidents

criminal incidents involving the Outlaws Motorcycle Club

picked 11 Aug 2026

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Outlaws MC criminal allegations and incidentsOutlaws MC criminal allegations and incidents

The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, also known as the American Outlaws Association, or A.O.A., is classified as a motorcycle gang by various law enforcement agencies internationally. The Outlaws have been implicated in various organized crime activities, including drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution rings, weapons trafficking, and violent acts directed at rival motorcycle clubs. Members of the Outla…

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picked 13 Aug 2026

Full text · Open Library

You Can't WinYou Can't Win

William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished...

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picked 13 Aug 2026
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