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.
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
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