ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an examination of the motorcycle "gang", the members, and their behavior. The deviance really was not the motorcycle or the rider, but more generally it was/is associated with particular patterns of behavior. E. Durkheim suggested that deviance played a key role in society, as it helped us to measure behavior. The chapter pays attention to the social theories that may best explain the motorcycle gangs. Edwin Lemert suggested that deviance could be divided into two independent sources: primary and secondary deviance. Howard Becker explains that social groups create deviance by making rules, and it is an infraction of these rules that in turn creates deviance. Therefore, although not born to deviant behavior, the resulting action and the label of deviant that is attached to the behavior culminate in the individual being cast as an outsider and, by definition, cast as deviant themselves.
