Dr Jarrod Gilbert on The History of Gangs in New Zealand - Public Seminar

WELCOME TO OUR 2014 SERIES

OF PUBLIC HISTORY SEMINARS AT THE

MINISTRY FOR CULTURE AND HERITAGE

Please join us to hear

Dr Jarrod Gilbert on

The History of Gangs in New Zealand

12.15pm on Wednesday 5 March,

L4, ASB House, 101 The Terrace, Wellington

Everyone is welcome - talks are for approximately one hour

 Rape, murder, violence and drugs: gangs are synonymous with them all. Despite having a significant presence in New Zealand since the 1950s, though, our gangs have been under-researched and remain poorly understood. One reason for this is the difficulty of doing fieldwork.

This seminar will look at the problems of researching gangs, but also the problems encountered when research findings clash with popular and official understandings.

Between 2002 and 2010 Jarrod Gilbert undertook the most comprehensive study ever done on gangs in New Zealand, and in 2013 he published Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand. Patched won the Peoples Choice category at the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards and was a finalist for best non-fiction book.

Jarrod lectures at the University of Canterbury and is the lead researcher at Independent Research Solutions. He is currently working on a book titled Murder: A New Zealand History.

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