Overview
From drug dealer to don ... the remarkable life and career of criminologist Greg Newbold.
Growing up in 1950s Auckland, Greg Newbold's early years were marked by order and chaos in equal measure, as his stable childhood later became transformed by his mother's alcoholism. After leaving school at 17, he entered university in 1970 and soon became immersed in the drug-fueled hedonism of the era. Always a risk-taker, he began dealing in the drugs he was using, both soft and hard, until he was arrested in July 1975 and charged with offering to sell 34 grams of heroin to a police informant. Convicted and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment, he spent the first half of his sentence in the maximum-security prison at Paremoremo before being transferred to a prison camp.
Dubbed 'Dream Dealer' by a fellow inmate, it was at Paremoremo that Newbold began to take a serious look at his future. He knew that his best chance of rescuing his life lay in continuing his studies in prison. Already a graduate before his arrest, Newbold pursued an MA in anthropology, submitting a ground-breaking thesis on the social organization of Paremoremo Prison that earned him first class honors and a scholarship. After his release, he completed a PhD, became a lecturer at Canterbury University and rose to become one of New Zealand's leading criminologists.
Dream Dealer charts Newbold's transformation from prisoner to professor with clarity and candor. He relives the rollercoaster ride of his life, describing the world of the prison in the 1970s and his eventful journey through it. He recounts the sometimes-dramatic process of adjusting to freedom after release, as well as his pivotal role in the Committee of Inquiry into Oakley psychiatric hospital which led to the institution's eventual closure.
Fast-moving and unadorned, Dream Dealer is the story of a man who has lived on both sides of the law but who is defined by neither.
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