ABSTRACT
The largest number of planned aggressive violent incidents occurred in private, remote settings or routine spaces in the saloon society such as bars, tattoo shops, or other biker hangouts. In the middle to late 1960s, a new orientation swept through the outlaw biker world as violent criminals emerged as leaders and the clubs became involved in drug trafficking. Biker wars increase criminal activities and recruitment of violence-prone members. Outlaw bikers at war concentrate on the ''specific missions'' and how to pay for them. Wars are expensive—members give up legitimate work activities to fight and defend, weapons and explosives are purchased, clubhouses are fortified, and legal expenses are paid. The bloody wars common to the two biker gangs in the United States and Australia moved to Europe with a vengeance. The event that brought the Great Nordic Biker War to an end occurred in Drammen, Norway, a city just east of Oslo.
