Jarrod Gilbert

Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury and sociologist, Jarrod Gilbert joins Emile Donovan to discuss the tenure of Andrew Coster and who might be a good fit as a replacement. Audio

In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about Chris Luxon being harangued by the media for copy-and-pasting his Waitangi Day speech, an eye-opening column… Audio

Political calls to crack down on crime are echoing in our media ahead of the upcoming election - not for the first time. Two seasoned journalists showed this was part of a pattern in a report on crime… Audio

Drive-by shootings dramatically increased at the height of inter-gang conflict between the Tribesmen and Killer Beez last year. 

A report - from the inter-governmental Gang Intelligence Centre - also… Audio

A controversial police interrogation method that's been implicated in a false confession is under fire from human rights lawyers, criminologists and psychologists.

Last month, Crown Law and police… Audio

Today on The Panel, Anna Dean and Peter Field discuss with Wallace today's announcement of gang measures the Government is planning. Also, they discuss Kamala Harris speaking at the Pacific Island… Audio

Jarrod Gilbert, a senior lecturer at University of Canterbury and author of Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand joins us to give some context to the latest shootings in Auckland. Audio

The Government is promising nearly half-a-billion dollars to tackle gang-related crime.

Some experts say the announcement is a knee-jerk reaction to a recent spate of crimes.

University of Auckland… Audio

Recent reports about gangs and an upswing in gun crime echo a similar panic 25 years ago which prompted a political backlash and hasty changes in the law. A new report looking back at that says most… Audio

As political debate around crime and gangs intensifies, a criminologist is warning against hasty controls.

Canterbury University gang expert Jarrod Gilbert has been researching 1996, a year of… Audio

A gang expert says the police may need to monitor gangs "extremely heavily" - or get them in a room together - in a bid to quash any tit for tat violence that may be brewing.

There are growing… Audio

An expert on gangs says there is a challenge to get vaccination rates up in gangs.

A positive case last month on the Hauraki Plains involved a Black Power member, and several Mongrel Mob members in… Audio

An FBI-led operation that resulted in the arrests of several top gang members in New Zealand continued overnight, resulting in the arrests of more than 800 people across the globe.

So far, New… Audio

The head has been knocked off a drug importing beast. That's the take of a gang expert, after New Zealand police carried out raids across the North Island as part of an international sting led by the… Video, Audio