Sociologist Dr Jarrod Gilbert is Director of Criminal Justice and a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury.   

As this country’s leading authority on gangs, he wrote the very successful book ‘Patched: The history of gangs in New Zealand’ which won several awards and become a best seller.  

He also co-edited Criminal Justice: A New Zealand Introduction, writes a regular column for the New Zealand Herald and is currently working on a new book ‘Murder: A New Zealand History’.  

He was Simon Barnett and James Daniels’ guest for this weeks Six and a Song.

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