  After a brief overview of relevant studies on one-nucleon knockout showing
the importance of quantitatively understanding the origin of the quenched
spectroscopic factors extracted from data, attention is focussed on two-nucleon
emission as a suitable tool to investigate nucleon-nucleon correlations inside
complex nuclei. In particular, direct (e,e$'$pp) and (e,e$'$pn) reactions are
discussed, and the role of final-state interactions is studied. The influence
of the mutual interaction between the two outgoing nucleons is shown to depend
on the kinematics and on the type of the considered reaction.
