$40.00
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2013
Summary
The Devil’s Henchmen throwing Molotov cocktails at the Epitaph Riders in Christchurch’s first gang war. Prime Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by Black Power members at the Royal Tiger Tavern in Wellington. The Magogs and the Mothers, PEP schemes and P dealers, patches and ridgies, colours and class: for five decades gangs have had a massive impact on New Zealand life.
Based on ten years of research among gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. J…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869407292 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869407296 |
| Author: | Gilbert Jarrod |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 170mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
“Jarrod Gilbert’s book is thorough, readable, scholarly, provocative and ground-breaking.”
Covering bikie gangs and skinheads, the Mongrel Mob and Black Power, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand.
Patched shows the urgency with which social problems that lead to gang formation, like entrenched unemployment and poverty, must be addressed. Patched is excellent for its readability and its hard-nosed search for the truth, but it becomes outstanding because Gilbert’s findings are necessary. For these reasons, Patched may well become a landmark work of New Zealand non-fiction. – Feby Idrus, Booksellers NZ
I highly recommend Patched to anyone seeking to understand the development and growth of various gang cultures within our communities. I also recommend it to those interested in what we might need to do differently for government policies to become better aligned with the lives of young people… – Celia Lashlie, NZ Listener
About The Author
Gilbert Jarrod
Jarrod Gilbert spent ten years with New Zealand gangs researching this book. He received a University of Canterbury Doctoral Scholarship and a C. Wright Mills Award, earning his PhD in sociology in 2010. Gilbert now conducts independent research, lectures at the University of Canterbury and is frequently sought by the media to comment on gangs.
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