By Jarrod Gilbert
For greater than 5 a long time, gangs have performed a pivotal position in New Zealand crime existence, starting with the bodgies and widgies of the Fifties. in accordance with 10 years of gang examine, this book chronicles the increase of the Hell’s Angels and different motorbike gangs within the Nineteen Sixties, the expansion of the Mongrel Mob and Black energy within the Nineteen Seventies, and organized crime over the last decade. With descriptions of such occasions because the Devil’s Henchmen throwing Molotov cocktails on the Epitaph Riders in Christchurch’s first gang warfare and Black strength contributors surrounding top Minister Rob Muldoon at Wellington’s Royal Tiger Tavern, it additionally discusses the importance of colours and class. With bills from gang contributors, police, and politicians, this violent and infrequently frightening booklet transports its readers to a tricky but revealing a part of New Zealand existence.
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Neumeyer, Juvenile Delinquency in Modern Society, Second Edition, New York: Van Nostrand, 1955, p. 152 ; James F. , "Differential Association as a Hypothesis: Problems of Empirical Testing", Social Problems,8 (Summer, 1960), pp. 14-25; Trice, op. ; S. Kirson Weinberg, "Theories of Criminality and Problems of Prediction", Journal ofCriminal Law and Criminology, 45 (November-December, 1954), pp. 412--429. 21 See the statement on p. 19, above. 22 Op. , p. 182. "23 Such statements are not so much errors in interpretation of the differential association statement as they are errors regarding the role of theory, hypotheses and facts in scientific research.
10 A further complication in this regard arises because some crimes become known to the police only if a victim complains, while other offences become known by direct observation on the part of the police. Cases of drunken driving, for example, usually get into police records only if observed by a policeman, while cases of burglary usually become known to the police as a result of a report by the victim. The ratio of offences committed to offences known probably is greater for those offences that get into police records only when observed by the police than for those which get into the reports as a result of complaints by victims.
63--65. 36 INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY and sometimes as "forgery," making it impossible to get a close estimate of the amount of variation in time of anyone of these offences. 12 Fifth, when comparisons are made, the mere number of crimes known to the police is not sufficient. What is needed is statements of rates-the number of crimes in proportion to the number of population or in proportion to some other base. But determination of this base is sometimes almost as difficult as determination of the crime ratio itself.