Hell's Angel

Theoretical perspectives of the book "Hell's Angel"

Theoretical perspectives of the book "Hell's Angel"

Introduction

Hells Angels at War is the explosive story of the campaign for motorists "vicious and bloody for supremacy in the underworld of organized crime.

The veteran investigative journalist and bestselling author Yves Lavigne exposes the deadly politics and tactics used by biker gangs outlaws in their fight for control of drug territories across Canada, USA and Europe. The Hells Angels are the most violent and cunning of them all (Yves¸1999).

For 20 years, police across Canada for their own political purposes, have increased the spectrum of the invasions of the Hells Angels. “However, when the war started cycling, police were unprepared and unable to protect the public. In fact, the only threat to the Hells Angels in the last decade has come from the agencies implementing the law, but a public outrage as the biker wars claim the lives of innocent people.

Book and the functionalist perspective

The book deals with crime and it fully demonstrates the functionalist perspective of sociology.

Functionalism is one of the key perspectives of sociology. Sociology studies the contexts in which people live and how they affect these contests. In essence, the sociological studies the question of why the world is the way it is. Functionalism with conflict theory and interactionism, is one of the main schools of sociological thought, examination of the company through a functional framework that emphasizes all, no matter how seemingly bizarre, misplaced, or harmful, it serves a purpose (Yves, 1999).

California's climate is ideal for bicycles, surfboards, convertibles, pools and apathy. Most cyclists are harmless weekend types, no more dangerous than skiers or skin divers. But since the end of World War II West Coast has been affected by gangs of youths on motorcycles wild, roaming the roads in groups of ten to thirty and stop whenever you are thirsty or narrow roads to pick up a some beer and make noise. The hell broth advertising in 1965 was the phenomenon is new, but even within the ranks of the Hell's Angels are those who insist that the scene outside the law was over the hump in the mid-fifties, when the original faces began drift into marriage and mortgages and payment time.

It all started, say, in late 1940, when most former soldiers wanted to return to an orderly pattern: college, marriage, work, children - all the extras that come with a peaceful sense of security. But not everyone felt that way. Like the vagabonds who traveled west after Appomattox, there were thousands of veterans in 1945, which rejected outright the idea of returning to their pre-war pattern. They did not want the order, but privacy, and time to figure things out. It was a nervous, feeling down, and an average of trouble that always comes out of war ... compressed sense of time in the outer limits of fatalism. They wanted more action, and one way to see because it was on a big ...