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Patched

Jarrod Gilbert

2013384 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2013
first published
  • 2013Auckland University Press · ENGISBN 9781775586012
  • 2013Auckland University Press · ENGISBN 9781775581376
  • 2013Auckland University Press · 384 pagesISBN 9781869407292

Based on ten years of research among gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. Beginning with the bodgies and widgies of the 1950s, Jarrod Gilbert traces teh story through the rise of teh Hells Angels and other motorcycle clubs in the 1960s, the growth of the Mongrel Mob and Black Power in the 19701s and shifts towards organised crime over the last ten years.

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